Let It Swine, Let It Swine, Let It Swine!

For the Love of Pig Iron, Pig Iron Theatre Company's fundraiser, only happens once per year, so we're not going to trouble you with a full review that might make your mouth water and your jealousy rise. If you weren't there, try to make it next year. That's all.

Highlights you may have missed from this year's benefit, "The Swining":

• An opening dance-comedy piece choreographed to iconic "scary movie" music (like the scores to Jaws and Psycho).
• Miss Martha Graham Cracker as Medusa, singing Styx's "Renegade," after explaining that, as Medusa, she's a murderess and therefore in fear of her life from the long arm of the law.
• James Sugg, dressed kind of like a darker-haired Jesus, covering Black Sabbath while people dressed as animals out of a Japanese cartoon swarm around him.
• The winner of "The Swining" Video Contest, showing us that while pigs and irons may not be scary themselves, a pigiron will haunt you in your sleep.
• Ballet X's Ennui, which depicts, among other things, oral sex, accompanied by Martha Graham Cracker channeling Chaka Khan's "Tell Me Something Good." It seemed somehow... appropriate.
• Oak Oak Okay, a band formed by a few girls who attended Girls Rock Philly summer camp. A surprisingly good band. That made us hate our parents for not letting us learn guitar.
• Air Play Trapeze swinging high above the Trocadero's stage in a concept piece about cannibalism – no joke. Cirque du Soliel, eat your heart out! (Yikes, sorry for that one.)
• Brendon Gawel, Dave Johnson, and Bradley Wrenn's awesome puppet dance about wearing purple. Because you know how much we love puppets.
• According to those bidding in the live auction, a private performance by Martha Graham Cracker is apparently worth more than ten days in a beach house on the Chesapeake. Who knew?
• "A dance-theatre remix of Jerry Bruckheimer's Armageddon." No joke. Picture "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" being sung while a giant, ballet-dancing Planet Earth gets attacked by "meteorites."

FWIW, the video above is from last year's benefit. But at least you'll get to see some of the awesomeness that is Martha Graham Cracker.