Aubergine
Opening Night: September 12, 2016
Closing: October 2, 2016
Theater: Playwrights Horizons
A man shares a bowl of berries, and a young woman falls in love. A world away, a mother prepares a bowl of soup to keep her son from leaving home. And a son cooks a meal for his dying father to say everything that words can’t. In Julia Cho’s poignant and lyrical new play, the making of a perfect meal is an expression more precise than language, and the medium through which life gradually reveals itself.
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September 12, 2016
In the monologue that begins “Aubergine,” a drama by Julia Cho about family, food and mortality that opened on Monday at Playwrights Horizons, a woman named Diane (Jessica Love) speaks at length about her and her husband’s obsessive love of food. They chased down exotic taco stands before taco trucks were, ahem, on every corner. When they came into serious money, they became high-end food tourists, seeking out the most sublime dining experiences — even eating at El Bulli, the ur-temple of molecular gastronomy, in a remote part of Spain not once, not twice, but three times.
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