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FOOD

Nov 2—Nov 18, 2023

Created and co-directed by Geoff Sobelle

    Part of
  • Next Wave 2023
Do you need what you eat? Do you eat what you need?

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.

ONSALE DATES

Fri Jun 16
BAM Members & Patrons
 
Tue Jul 11
General Public

UPCOMING Performances

      RUNNING TIME

      1hr 20min with no intermission

      VENUE

      BAM Fisher
      Fishman Space

      TICKET INFORMATION

      Tickets start at $35
      All performances will adhere to protocols developed in accordance with New York State regulations and in consultation with medical professionals for the safety of our artists, audiences, and staff.

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      Leadership support for BAM Access Programs provided by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation

      JL Greene

      Leadership support for
      Next Wave 2023
      provided by:

      Ford-Foundation

      Leadership support for
      theater at BAM provided by
      The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.;
      The SHS Foundation; and
      The Shubert Foundation, Inc.

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      • “I would watch Sobelle do just about anything…”
        — Alexis Soloski, The New York Times
      • “Actor, creator, magician and illusionist, Sobelle performs miracles.”
        — phindie
      • “Geoff Sobelle is an artistic genius…”
        — phindie

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