The Cook at Berkeley Rep's Peet's Theatre

The Cook is a play by Eduardo Machado, directed by Berkeley Rep's Associate Artistic Director David Mendizábal, in which an aristocratic Cuban family flees Havana to Miami on the eve of Castro's revolution, entrusting their mansion to their devoted cook Gladys, who vows to protect it until their return. For 40 years, Gladys keeps her promise, enduring loss and upheaval, until the aristocrats' daughter returns and Gladys finds she has sacrificed everything for a bond that has been forgotten. The cast features Gisela Chipe, Daniel Duque-Estrada, Yesenia Iglesias, Georgina Morillo, and Ashton Muñiz.