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About the show

1. Cream the freakish knowledge of pop culture together with the useless arts education and obscure references in a large bowl. Set aside for three months while it writes a script. Cover with a cheesecloth if it becomes unstable at a molecular level.

2. Grease a 14" x 21" cooky sheet with the assorted goofiness. Preheat the oven to 3500° Kelvin.

3. Remove the creamed script mixture from the bowl. Knead well on a floured flat surface. Cut the dough into a dozen or so smaller scripts, or "sketches." Wrap these sketches around the actors.

4. Lay the sketch-wrapped actors on the cooky sheet at 1" apart, so they do not touch. Season liberally with the satire and parody, to your liking. Bake for six weeks or until golden brown.

5. Remove from the oven and set on a stage at Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Saturdays throughout April at 7:00 p.m.. Serve hot.

—From Betold Brecht's Gemütlichkeit of Cooking, Theater-Cuisine Publishers, Berlin, 1950.

Performed Saturdays, April 7, 14, 21 and 28 at 7 p.m. at Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis.

Reviews and press

Max Sparber of the City Pages wrote a nice article about us for this one.

Cast and crew

Leigha Horton
Matthew Kessen
Trevor Nelson
Charlie Horn
Melanie Kim
Reid Knuttila
Cast

Matthew Gilman
Director

Sheila Berger
Assistant Director

Matthew Foster Leigha Horton
Producers

Matthew Foster (head writer)
Matthew Gilman
Matthew Kessen
Trevor Nelson
Leigha Horton
Sheila Berger
Lara Brown
Writers

Lara Brown
Sara Mielke
Costumes

Sheila Berger
Props