In her BAM debut, this master storyteller shares an incisive and engrossing morality tale for our times, recounting the years she spent as a Bible-interpreting prophetess in a Pentecostal community in Sydney.
Performer and theater artist Geoff Sobelle (HOME, The Object Lesson) hosts an intimate dinner party of smell, taste, and touch. The audience gathers around a gargantuan banquet table for a culinary experience that is at once common and strange, human and surreal, universal and personal.
Sobelle’s latest creation is an absurdist, immersive, and rigorously designed meditation on how we eat, what’s in the soup, and who pays the bill.
A tour-de-force of audience manipulation, hallucinatory sleight-of-hand, and physical comedy, FOOD asks us what missing link fell off the food chain to make us eat the way we do.
Please note: There’s no eating at this dinner party, so don’t come hungry. General Admission tickets include both seats at the table and throughout the theater, available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Co-created and Magic by Steve Cuiffo
Co-directed by Lee Sunday Evans
Lighting design by Isabella Byrd
Sound design by Tei Blow
Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for the 2023 Next Wave, Arizona State University – Gammage, FringeArts Philadelphia, Allen & Meghan Thorpe, and Garth Patil. Additional support provided by the Wyncote Foundation. Developmental support provided by Mercury Store.
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