by Jose Rivera --- directed by Clyde Simon
at The Liminis (in Tremont)
Cross the threshold and take your place at a beastly dinner.
The time: the present. The place: a faded penthouse in a violent, militaristic Los Angeles. A rich and beautiful young woman has invited two carefully selected strangers (one for her lovely eyes, the other for her lovely hands) to a very special dinner commemorating the death of her parents. She has offered the two strangers $20,000 each to attend (and complete) the bizarre annual feast. The result is an engrossing journey into the traumatized inner realms of the three very different, solitary women that is alternately surreal, humorous, startling and magical.
"Rivera has created an intriguing and evocative drama with the social and pyschological terrors that have leapt from the grottoes of the women's minds" - San Francisco Chronicle."This real-time drama...offers great insight into how basic human nature can go bizarrely astray when the world is falling apart." - San Francisco Bay Guardian.
