The Non-Hunger Games: The Challenges of Chowing Down on Stage
BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Eating and acting at the same time is never a picnic.
Getting your lines right while fretting about spinach or chips or seeds in your teeth -- no thanks.
But that doesn't stop playwrights from making munching food part of their stories.
In Broadway's "Seminar," aspiring author Lily Rabe calms herself with carbs: Ice cream, chips, cookie dough (which are actually healthy alternatives - yogurt, unsalted chips and mashed banana and raisins).
In Off-Broadway's "Regets," opening March 27 at Manhattan Theatre Club, four men seeking divorces in mid-century Nevada bond over a campfire and what looks like stew.
But they're lightweights compared to the cast of Dan LeFranc's full-length one-act "The Big Meal."
As I stated in my review, it makes that point that life is a banquet -- so savor every bite.
During the play, characters are served significant dishes: Mashed potatoes and beef gravy; chicken fingers with fries; mashed potatoes and turkey gravy and peas and carrots; pasta and tomato sauce, and chipped beef with broccoli.
Sounds like a Pepto-coated nightmare of my school lunches gone by.
Turns out the meals, prepped prior to each show by a production assistant, aren't spelled out in the script. LeFranc and director Sam Gold decided on the dishes, says a rep for the show, "partly based on the aesthetics. They also made sure the actors didn't have any allergies."
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Eating and acting at the same time is never a picnic.Getting your lines right while fretting about spinach or chips or seeds in your teeth -- no thanks.
But that doesn't stop playwrights from making munching food part of their stories.
In Broadway's "Seminar," aspiring author Lily Rabe calms herself with carbs: Ice cream, chips, cookie dough (which are actually healthy alternatives - yogurt, unsalted chips and mashed banana and raisins).
In Off-Broadway's "Regets," opening March 27 at Manhattan Theatre Club, four men seeking divorces in mid-century Nevada bond over a campfire and what looks like stew.
But they're lightweights compared to the cast of Dan LeFranc's full-length one-act "The Big Meal."
As I stated in my review, it makes that point that life is a banquet -- so savor every bite.
During the play, characters are served significant dishes: Mashed potatoes and beef gravy; chicken fingers with fries; mashed potatoes and turkey gravy and peas and carrots; pasta and tomato sauce, and chipped beef with broccoli.
Sounds like a Pepto-coated nightmare of my school lunches gone by.
Turns out the meals, prepped prior to each show by a production assistant, aren't spelled out in the script. LeFranc and director Sam Gold decided on the dishes, says a rep for the show, "partly based on the aesthetics. They also made sure the actors didn't have any allergies."
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