From a review of “The Food Chain” by Nicky Silver
Atlanta Journal/Constitution
A Binge for the Funny Bone
'Food Chain' shakes, rattles and rolls over the top
"The Food Chain" is just hilarious. But Silver's take on loneliness, obsessions, and superficial beauty - now at the Horizon Theatre - is no less over the top. And it's pushed to even wilder extremes by director Lawrence Keller and expert comic actors Susie Grimley (Horizon's "The Good Times Are Killing Me") and Glenn Rainey (Theatre in the Square's "Funny Money"), whose performances are as inventive and excessive as the material itself.
On a physical level alone, Rainey's performance is an impressive one. While hauling around a bulky "fat:" costume, he punctuates a monologue as hysterically high-beam as Grimley's with violent attacks on a grocery bag filled with junk food. By the end of the scene, he's devoured a row of doughnuts off a pretzel rodlike corn on the cob, licked the cream fillings out of a half-dozen Oreos (hurling the chocolate cookie portions over his shoulders like oyster shells) and, for his coup de grace, downed an entire bottle of Yoo-Hoo in a single massive gulp. (the night I saw the play, the audience cheered.)