Feast

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Guillermo Verdecchias new play Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with breakfast, family life, and the end of things as we know them. The family deals with the coming troubles in their own ways. Twenty-something daughter Isabel is increasingly convinced that something drastic must be done. Her mother, Julia, fortifies their home in preparation. And her father, Mark, lets his foodie cravings precipitate the familys unraveling as he brings Chukwuemeka Okonkwe super-competent, under-employed fixer and logistical genius looking for the business opportunity he deserves into their lives. Moving from North America to Beirut to Mombasa, with stops along the way at Starbucks, The Centre for Avant-Garde Geography, and a cave on the island of Lampedusa, Feast spans the globalized world and beyond, offering a wild, magical-realist take on the uncertainties and anxieties of the early twenty-first century.

Author Bio

Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama and fiction as well as a director, dramaturge, translator, and actor. He received the Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas and is a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. His work includes the critically acclaimed Feast, The Art of Building a Bunker (with Adam Lazarus), the Governor-General shortlisted Noam Chomsky Lectures (with Daniel Brooks), the Seattle Times' Footlight Award-winning Adventures of Ali & Ali (with Marcus Youssef and Camyar Chai), A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), bloom, and Another Country. His work has been recorded, anthologized, translated into Spanish and Italian, produced in Europe and the US, and is studied in Latin America, Australia, Europe, and North America. He lives in Toronto with Tamsin Kelsey, his partner of many years, and their two children.