It has gone on to become one of the most performed new English plays of recent years. Rob Bundy directed the American premiere of the play in Washington, D.C. in 1995. It garnered four prestigious Helen Hayes Awards, including Best Production. The Houston premiere of The Pitchfork Disney is also under the direction of Bundy, whose previous Stages' productions include Jack and Jill, Quills, Ascendancy and Chili Queen. He recently directed the critically-acclaimed New York premiere of Ascendancy, as well as Romeo and Juliet and The Substance of Fire for the Chautauqua Institution Conservatory Theatre.
Nobody really gets thrills from blood and gore on stage anymore.
With Pitchfork Disney, you keep getting thrown because the scare is a psychological scare instead of a visceral one. It's a funhouse ride, and you laugh one moment and are aghast the next. Bundy says unlike Stages' critically-acclaimed production of Quills about the Marquis de Sade, The Pitchfork Disney doesn't carry a strong philosophical or political message. It's all about investigating your own fears, but then having fun watching someone else go through theirs while you watch from the safety of your theatre seat. No, he's not the lead singer for The Smashing Pumpkins, but just as equally bizarre.