Chickens in the Yard

Pittsburgh City Paper - Actors play a family — and its chickens — in a challenging new play. It’s fair to say of the past 25 years that there is…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - “Chickens in the Yard” unfolds as a quietly observed turning point in the lives of four interconnected people. And there are chickens present. The play, by the…

Tribune-Review - According to playwright Paul Kruse, individual chickens are not nearly as successful on their own as they are when they are part of a flock. After seeing Quantum…

The Pittsburgh Tatler - The Pittsburgh abode that is the setting of Paul Kruse’s new play Chickens in the Yard is home to a new sort of extended, nontraditional family: sixty-something year-old Joyce (Laurie…

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - A trio of young theater artists known as the Hatch Arts Collective created the play “Chickens in the Yard” in 2012 that had a brief standing room-only…

Photos by Heather Mull.

Tribune-Review - Playwright Paul Kruse thinks chickens don't get the respect they deserve. “They are helpless and a bit dumb, but (together) they make up a ‘flock mind,' ” Kruse…

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