Theater review: 'Cooking With Elvis'
I enjoy small theater companies, and one of my favorites is Washington's Woolly Mammoth Theater Company. That being said, this is the second small theater production that just fell short.
The story is about a English family that has had its disfunction heightened an accident that left the father in a vegitative state. The dughter deals with it through food while the mother deals with the situation by sleeping around -- here, with a guy named Stewart. The father will occationally -- in his own mind, you're left to assume -- break out into Elvis impersionations.
The show is somewhat crude, but that is not its biggest failing. That is left to the fact that you just don't care about these people. It is a sad story, but not one that you want to know more about.
Again, more professional critics disagree. Here are some reviews...
'Cooking With Elvis': A Recipe Both Sordid And Satisfying [WP, 12.25.2003]
Theater 'Cooking With Elvis': A Recipe Both Sordid And Satisfying ... Cooking With
Elvis" is in absolutely terrible taste. And I mean that in a good way. ...
Food for thought - The Washington Times: Entertainment
... Woolly Mammoth takes the far less traditional approach to seasonal revelry with
its pitch-dark, pitch-perfect "Cooking With Elvis," a dysfunctional family ...
Washingtonian Online - Theater Review
... Cooking With Elvis. Reviewed by ANN LIMPERT. Three Stars. Foucheux courtesy
of Woolly Mammoth. Elvis Presley was all about excess: sequins ...
http://www.washingtonian.com/thismonth/Reviews/elvis.html
And a review from some site called Curtain Up, which I had never heard of before.
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