Dinners Alone
Tuesday, August 5th

Written by Aida Garrido and directed by Alexandru Mihail

They’re elegantly attired, they’re bored, and they’re boring. They’re also hungry. But is it for food, meaning, the truth, or blood?

Join us in this party where food, drink, and pleasant company are absent. Come see people speak to each other while speaking past one another. Observe the meaningless ways we make money. Consider the conversations we might have in the absence of books and trees. Take note of the special enmity between family and friends. Pity a woman’s frightening inability to tell a joke. Witness the horror of humanity’s propensity for cannibalism. 

DINNERS ALONE is a darkly absurdist drawing room comedy for the twenty-first century about the distinct forms of insincerity and loneliness which afflict our present era and all other eras. It pivots around the complete deterioration of a man’s social fabric over the course of one evening.

This is a reading of a play.