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UCB Tackles NY Foodie Culture with 'Pig: A Restaurant

Foodie culture satire has become a sub-genre unto itself: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon’s The Trip had some great little jests at British haute cuisine and the web series Foodies does a great job poking fun at American food snobs and their social challenges.

Now, Upright Citizens Brigade takes on the New York dining scene with Pig: A Restaurant, a short, one-woman play about the chefs, reviewers, bloggers, and eaters who create, perpetuate, and critique couture cuisine. From the Gothamist:

Written by the Leila Cohan-Miccio, a former editor for Grub Street, directed by Caitlin Tegart, and single-handedly performed by Lauren Conlin Adams, who’s waited tables everywhere from Balthazar to DB Bistro Moderne, Pig is a razor-sharp take on the city’s current foodie fadishness. The incredibly elastic Adams plays half a dozen characters, including, but not limited to: a pork-obsessed control freak chef, a hyper-bitchy restaurant publicist, a lascivious hat-wearing critic, and a DIY Brooklyn “farmer” who grows grapes on his Crown Heights rooftop, “with the terroir of Jamaican beef patties and weed.”

Tickets are available for $5 for wednesday shows on 12/7 and 12/21