FEAST.

Recommended by

Maggie Lou Rader:

18 Sep. 2020

“ I love Megan's voice. I saw a show of hers at Cincy Fringe a few years ago and then saw the production of FEAST with Know Theatre during Covid. I love her knotty and poetic text. It's visceral and active and challenging and... well... quite tasty! What a challenge for an actor and tech team. I love stories of female rage, and this is that. This script is smart and demands your complicity. It's unapologeticly female and human. ”
Eric Marlin:

27 Aug. 2020

“ A dense, gorgeous play vibrating with rage, grief and, most radically, hope. "Feast" raises contemporary political issues to the level of myth, without ever losing sight of the immediate consequences of what is discussed. A stellar, stellar play. ”
Anne Mason:

1 Apr. 2020

“ What a delightful act of meditation on the root source of human action and the evolution of societal norms. A bold play that proves that victor's claim the story:
"They call me a heartless monster
Do not make the mistake of thinking I have no heart!"
This piece is ripe with rich imagery, down to the note to "eagle-eyed theatre producers." And it is deep in its movement of the soul as our speaker's "heart discovers new places to break and dissolve."
A fantastically feminist call to action and a tribute to mothers everywhere. ”

One woman over 40. Can be any race or ethnicity.

Genre:

drama, experimental, fable/folktale, fantasy, immersive, political

Subject Matter Keywords:

patriarchy, Politics, authoritarianism, female lead

Length:

60-90 minutes

Cast Size:

Age Appropriateness:

ages 18 and up

Narrative Attributes:

Centers Female Characters

Little Village

“
Feast. takes aim at and exposes all the rage in the room: the loss, the despair, the need for revenge. But somehow, also, by the end, all the hope, too. It’s an epic song about love that leaves you singing along.
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Cedar Rapids Gazette

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Mother Earth, mother ship, military mother, mortal mother, immortal mother. All are rolled into a character that begins as a casual observer of life on this planet, until something so heinous, so personal pierces her armor of indifference and awakens the inner dragon that pulses through every mother’s heart.
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Iowa City Press-Citizen

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Maybe the real genius of the writing and performing comes from the awkward moments in the play, which reflect most dinner parties. Gogerty has penned a script and character which are both grimly funny without losing their grounding.
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Cincinnati Enquirer

“
Gogerty is a smart playwright. She’s not about to bore us with incomprehensible language. In fact, her script is everything that school-book translation wasn’t. It is filled with lush dialogue that is poetic, coarse, incredibly graphic and sometimes achingly beautiful.
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City Beat

“
Feast takes sharp aim at our modern hearts and pierces them in a most affecting manner. Most who tune in this production will recognize it as a powerful piece of truly in-the-moment theater, a glimpse of one way that performance can continue memorably in today's world.

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