Hot Buffet: A Staged Reading with Big Moves
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Posted by Web Team, April 01, 2008
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Presented by The Center for New Words “Hot Buffet” is a forthcoming new musical parody by Big Moves, inspired in part by Cabaret, the Handmaid’s Tale, and…cookbooks?
After studying culinary arts for five years in France, Andrea returns to a United States she barely recognizes. Weight control is practically a religion, sexuality is stuffed tightly away, and the state has no qualms about interfering in either. Andrea’s friend Sally has a unique role in this brave new world: she’s a dancer and professional eater at Hot Buffet, one of the few establishments in the city where patrons can indulge just about any carnal appetite, or at least vicariously enjoy those appetites being indulged in front of them. Andrea gets work in the kitchen, and Sally is making money hand over slightly greasy fist. But it’s a flimsy refuge at best, and as society’s disdain for the pleasures of the flesh boils over into outright prosecution, the tattered velvet ropes at the Hot Buffet may not be enough. The reading will be lightly rehearsed, and discussion with the director follows (there will be feedback forms). The world premiere of Hot Buffet is scheduled for October of 2008, but if you want to see what Big Moves does BEHIND the scenes, this is your chance to peek in at the ground.
This event is free and open to the public. It will take place Tuesday April 22 at 7:00 pm in the Kotzen Room.
For more information please email Diane Hammer at diane.hammer@simmons.edu.
