Eating Their Words Event to Feature Keating, Welch, Lysy and Cash

By Andrew Gans
08 Dec 2009

Eating Their Words, which combines the performing and culinary arts, will continue on Valentine's Day with a lunch performance at Manhattan's Tocqueville Restaurant.

Attendees will enjoy the cuisine of Tocqueville's executive chef and owner, Marco Moreira, as well as the one-act plays penned by Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius, The Understudy), Jonathan Marc Sherman (Things We Want) and Sam Forman (The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall).

The cast for the afternoon will boast Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating (The Boy from Oz), Christopher Evan Welch (Festen), Austin Lysy (An American Plan) and Aya Cash (Killers and Other Family). Founder and artistic director Marlo Hunter directs. The lunch and performance will begin at 1 PM.

"The diner," according to press notes, "experiences three short plays happening at the table next to them, voyeuristically overhearing a conversation (the short play) taking place over meal. In between each short play, the diners enjoy the sumptuous course inspired by the play they just watched. Under the theme 'Food and Romance,' Chef Moreira will create an original three-course Valentine's Day lunch menu inspired by Sam Forman's World Premiere play, as well as past Eating Their Words' favorites, Birth Day by Theresa Rebeck, and Appetizer by Jonathan Marc Sherman."

Tickets for the Feb. 14 lunch event are now available by visiting www.eatingtheirwords.com. Tickets are priced $195 for the three courses and performance, $245 with a wine pairing, and the $295 VIP package, which includes premium seating with a playwright or actor, a tour of the kitchen, a signed souvenir program, and more. Tocqueville is located at 1 E. 15th Street.