Hunter Gatherers Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb Wins the Steinberg Award!

Fresh from winning the 2006 Will Glickman Award for the best new play in the Bay Area in 2006, Killing My Lobster is proud to announce that Peter Sinn Nachtrieb won the Steinberg Award from the American Theatre Critics Association! The award is for the best new American play to premiere outside of New York City during 2006. Past winners have included Lee Blessing, Nilo Cruz, Horton Foote, and August Wilson. Congratulations to Peter and thanks to everyone who supported the production!

The press has a hunger for HUNTER GATHERERS

"Exceptionally entertaining theater... A major achievement [for Killing My Lobster]... Outrageously libidinous knockabout farce meets penetrating social satire in Peter Nachtrieb's hilariously revelatory comedy. An almost two-hour laugh riot... An engaging, astute, no-taboos comedy of contemporary manners that skewers the moral, artistic, spiritual, gourmet and even back-to-nature pretensions of our society."

- Rob Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle

"A superb satire from which an incredibly unique brand of humor and rhythm emerges... Nachtrieb’s beautiful script is made so by an exorbitantly talented cast of actors." San Francisco Examiner

Check out all these great reviews from the press. "Wickedly funny and wildly inventive....[a] stunning comedy that nails the Gen X adult ethos squarely and proves Nachtrieb to be one of the freshest new theatrical voices going."
- Pat Craig, Contra Costa Times

"Nachtrieb's riotous new comedy observes what happens during mankind's fall, showing that the distance between 21st-century, middle-class Northern Californians and cavemen might not be so great after all." - Chloe Veltman, SF Weekly

"When a story's enacted a few yards in front of us by people who sweat, spit, and bleed. . . we're reminded that we, too, are alive. Hunter Gatherers reminds us that we're alive."
- KQED

"Astonishing writing and enormously funny. . . . The breakout hit of the summer!"
-Beyond Chron

"(Like) a mash-up of the most brutal episode of Wild Kingdom and any episode of South Park; an impressive first foray by the Lobsters into full-length play territory."
- San Francisco Bay Guardian

Bon Appétit

Killing My Lobster was proud to present the world premiere of our first-ever full-length play: Peter Nachtrieb's Hunter Gatherers.

Hunter Gatherers tells of a dinner party where sex, deception, wrestling, and an animal sacrifice are all on the menu. Pam and Richard are hosting their long time friends, Wendy and Tom, for a special dinner get-together. But what begins as a celebratory get-together soon erupts into a chain reaction of unearthed secrets, pent-up feelings, and sudden urges.

In short order the play’s wickedly funny surface gives way to deeper existential themes:

How strongly are we driven by primal desires laid into our genes for millions of years?

Is there such a thing as "human" decency, or are all of man’s impulses rooted in self-interest?

And what goes better with meat, the red or the white?

Read more about this world premiere production by clicking here.