“The Art of Dining”

Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cal’s main preoccupation is paying back the loan they tood to start it up and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the food’s quality and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner and their conversations reflect their tumultuous relationships with food, each other and themselves. Tina Howe’s dialogue takes us from hilarious to thought-provoking to disturbing.