The Food Chain at Theatre West

The Food Chain is the second in a series of play readings that we are calling Plays on Words, featuring new-to-you plays, timeless classics, and forgotten gems.

The Food Chain is a sex comedy with adult content. Some parents may consider it inappropriate for those under 13 years of age.

Amanda and Ford are a just-married couple. Serge and Otto are former gay lovers. This unlikely quartet has more in common than they realize. Uniting them, is Bea, a telephone crisis counselor with surprising connections to them all. For all of Bea’s apparent neuroses, she may hold the key to unraveling the other characters’ problems.

As stated earlier, this is a sex comedy. But it’s called The Food Chain for a reason (or two). One of the characters is a former fatty. Another is currently a beyond-compulsive eater. Does any of this impact their sex lives? You had better believe it.

Prolific playwright Nicky Silver received Drama Desk nominations for his plays Pterodactyls and Raised in Captivity. He wrote the book for the 2002 Broadway revival of the Rodgers and Hart musical The Boys from Syracuse. The Food Chain premiered in Washington, D.C. in 1994.

If either sex or food is of any interest to you, then The Food Chain will provide you with plenty of laughs.

The cast for this reading will consist of Theatre West members: Matthew Gademske, Samantha Gregory, Amy Simon, and Michael Van Duzer.

Written by Nicky Silver. Directed by Michael Van Duzer. Produced by Connie Mellors for Theatre West.,