Describe The Night
Opening Night: December 5, 2017
Closing: December 24, 2017
Theater: Atlantic Theater Co. Linda Gross Theater
In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years later, a mysterious KGB agent spies on a woman in Dresden and falls in love. In 2010, an aircraft carrying most of the Polish government crashes in the Russian city of Smolensk. Set in Russia over the course of 90 years, this thrilling and epic new play by Rajiv Joseph (Atlantic’s Guards at the Taj, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) traces the stories of seven men and women connected by history, myth and conspiracy theories.
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December 5, 2017
The most disgusting and probably the most memorable part of Rajiv Joseph’s play “Describe the Night” is the soup served in the second act.
It’s called qureshi and it’s made with live leeches. According to the old lady who ladles out portions to a young woman and a mysterious visitor sitting at her table in Dresden in 1989, it’s a Polish delicacy, and here’s how you eat it:
Prick your fingertips with a needle. Place them in the bowl. Wait until the leeches, having clamped themselves onto your flesh and sucked your blood, are fully engorged, then pluck them and plop them back into the soup. Add red pepper to burn their flesh. Chow down!
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