Stage and Cinema
- Highly Recommended
"...There is a tender brutality in the way Robert Mammana shatters a glass plate negative under his heel in Moving Arts' aching new production of Tom Jacobson's Tasty Little Rabbit. It happens early. The crack is too small to be mythic, too large to ignore. A face, a moment, a fragile idea of beauty vanishes in an instant. The room seems unsure whether to exhale or keep holding its breath. That moment signals with eerie clarity that what follows isn't just theater. It is something raw, necessary, and uneasy. Tasty Little Rabbit is a haunting, erotically charged excavation of beauty, memory, and the violence of being seen."
LA Splash
- Highly Recommended
"...This historic gem is a must-see production which has aced every aspect of the play – from skilled direction and commanding acting – all in a setting which is perfection itself. Even the playbill offers something special: actual photos from the time period (which are also projected onstage to help focus and clarify). Exeunt Productions and Moving arts are to be commended for a job well done."
Stage Scene LA
- Highly Recommended
"...Jacobson's latest play provides a fascinating biographical look at both a photographer whose pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boys are as gorgeously shot as they are erotically alluring and a writer shamed out of his homeland for acting on sexual impulses that could see a man of his predilections sentenced to years of hard labor designed to break even the toughest of gay men."
ArtsBeatLA
- Highly Recommended
"...Tasty Little Rabbit is a beautifully wrought jewel box of a play filled with fantastic acting, bright and powerful writing, and it?s given a lovely production by Moving Arts."
Showmag
- Highly Recommended
"...Director George Bamber makes the most of Moving Arts’ tiny stage which limits the variety of staging opportunities, but Nicholas Santiago’s background projections help give a sense of scene changes. Veteran designers Dan Weingarten (lighting) and Garry Lennon (costumes), contribute as well. But despite its limitations, Tasty Little Rabbit has a compelling warning about censorship in our time. I’d love to see this on the screen."
Stage Raw
- Somewhat Recommended
"...Playwright Tom Jacobson double dips into history in his latest work, Tasty Little Rabbit, which conjures a relationship between three historical figures: the brilliant Oscar Wilde, the German photographer Wilhelm von Gloeden, and von Gloeden's former model, assistant and lover, Pancrazio Buciuni, who became the keeper of von Gloeden's legacy after he passed away in 1930. The play pivots between two backdrops - the 1930s fascist campaign to wipe out pornography in Sicily and the flourishing gay community in southern Italy in the final decade of the 19th century."
Ticket Holders LA
- Highly Recommended
"...Jacobson's Tasty Little Rabbit winds through two time periods, from 1897 when Von Gloeden kept the local boys appreciated and their pockets filled with coinage, to the same exact spot in 1936 when Italy found itself overpowered by the censorship and cultural control of Mussolini's Fascist regime."
Larchmont Buzz
- Recommended
"...Sicily has a long history of conquest, by everyone from the Phoenicians to the Bourbons and, finally, Italy. Its myriad influences give it an anything-can-happen feel that is brought to life in Los Angeles playwright Tom Jacobson's latest, Tasty Little Rabbit. The play is based on actual people and events, and moves back and forth in time between the early 19th century and 1936."
Mostly Shakespeare
- Highly Recommended
"...The political climate of the 1930s has been very much on the minds of anyone who has been paying even the slightest bit of attention to current events, particularly in this country. Who would have thought fascism would come to the United States and be completely embraced by one of its two major political parties? But here it is. Tasty Little Rabbit, a fascinating new play written by Tom Jacobson, takes us out of this country and this time, its action set in Sicily in 1936 (the time of Mussolini), and in 1897"
