Who: Eden Theater Company
What: Short Zoom plays about isolation
Where: Eden Theater Zoom and Facebook Live
When: February 5, 11, 12, 19, 20, $5-$50, 8:00
Why: New City–based Eden Theater Company continues exploring our living quarters, where we’ve been stuck since last March, with The Kitchen Plays, the follow-up to last year’s Room Plays, which took us through the bedroom, the living room, and the bathroom. The short works are like windows into the situations so many of us are experiencing as we still shelter in place, waiting for the vaccine to be administered to enough people so we can really start opening things up and return to some semblance of normalcy.
The Kitchen Plays consist of Jake Brasch’s (The Man in the Fuchsia Mask) Ginger Bug, directed by Amber Calderon and starring Brasch and Madeline Barr as a husband and wife battling it out in their weekly cookoff; Eden creative artistic director Cassandra Paras’s (Daeva) Passion Project, directed by Byron Anthony (The Man in the Fuchsia Mask) and featuring Paras (Monogamous Animals) and Larry Fleischman as a couple rehearsing an audition scene; and Madison Harrison’s For the Family, directed by Eden producing artistic director Diane Davis, with Owen Alleyne and Danielle Kogan in a story set around a Thanksgiving with estranged parents as guests. The three works will be performed live February 5, 11, 12, 19, and 20 at 8:00; tickets begin at $5 based on what you can afford.