Hunter Gatherers: Sex, Death, and Meat

Last night my friend Josi was nice enough to take me with her to the Washington Ensemble Theater for a production of their currently running play Hunter Gatherers.
To give an idea of the basis of the play the tagline is "A living room play about sex, love, and meat." Three of my favorite things!
The story starts with a seemingly normal married couple in their seemingly normal living room killing a lamb in a cardboard box for the night's dinner party. Pam begrudgingly assists Richard by holding and calming the lamb by petting it and telling it a magical story about a wizard, while he cuts its throat.
The two are later joined by their oldest and dearest friends, Wendy and Tom, and we quickly learn that the four shared a joint wedding and meet for dinner once a year. We also quickly learn that Richard and Wendy have each year, been using the excuse of stuffing mushrooms, to go and have sex with each other in the kitchen.
While having sex on this particular occasion a pot falls off of the rack and hits Richard in the head. He begins to bleed, and Tom (who is a doctor) stitches him up. Tom is fully aware of his wife's infidelities with Richard, but innocent and naive Pam is in the dark and refuses to believe when Tom informs her.
When the girls are alone together, we learn that Wendy is desperate to have children. In a roundabout way she asks Pam to lend her blessing to the idea of her and Richard having sex in order to conceive. Pam seems as though she may agree to it but then suspicious, asks Wendy if she may have some stuffed mushrooms. Wendy realizing that Pam now knows of her indiscretions proceeds to tell her that she intends to take Richard for herself.
Later Richard and Wendy begin to awkwardly dance with one another while Tom and Pam look on in horror. Pam removes the lamb from the oven and brings it into the living room only for Richard to discover that it is still raw. He and Wendy eat it anyway, off of the floor, in a ravenous animal like manner and then begin to have sex but fall asleep as a result of all of the meat.
Meanwhile Pam and Tom are upstairs feeling victimized and when they begin to have sex Pam gets too into it and accidentally chokes Tom to death.
I won't ruin the end but by the time it was over we had witnessed an attempted ass raping, several murders, and meat and mixed nuts being thrown around the stage and clinging to the walls. Needless to say it was a comedy. The characters were hilarious and much more complex than I have made them out to be.
By far the person who stood out the most was Patrick Allcorn who played the role of Richard. The guy had this frightening Amityville Horror look to him and a style that instilled fear and comedy simultaneously.
Hunter Gatherers inspired the same discomfort that I received while reading Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho. I do so adore that feeling.
It will be running at the Washington Ensemble Theater until February 8th.
Washington Ensemble Theater