About the Play:

Feast is a full-length comedic drama by Guillermo Verdecchia. A culinary tour, a global crisis, and yet, still always hungry. Can one ever be truly full? From celebrated artist Guillermo Verdecchia, Feast is a biting look at a world where some are movers and some are moved and how long we can last when your family is falling apart. Mermaid or siren? Paradise or dystopia? Travel the globe, just don't forget your loved ones…or your soul.

Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with compounding global crises and the end of things as we know them. Each member of the family deals with the coming troubles in their own way. Twenty-something daughter Isabel turns to activism. Her mother Julia fortifies their home in preparation. And her father Mark lets his increasingly extractive foodie cravings precipitate the family's unravelling as he turns to super-competent, underemployed fixer and logistics genius Chukwuemeka Okonkwe for help satisfying his urge to consume more. Moving from North America to Beirut to Mombasa, with stops along the way at Starbucks, the Centre for Avant-Garde Geography, and a cave on the island of Lampedusa, Feast spans the globalized world and beyond, offering a wild, magic-realist take on the uncertainties and anxieties of the early twenty-first century.

Feast premiered in 2023 at Prairie Theatre Exchange (PTE) in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Cast: 2 female, 1 Black male, 1 male

What people say:

"...a complex and rewarding work by a virtuoso playwright at the top of his game, and it warrants multiple viewings." — Intermission Magazine

"Feast is a challenging, gripping exploration of transience and the malleability of place on an increasingly unbalanced planet." — Winnipeg Free Press

About the Playwright:

Guillermo Verdecchia is a Canadian writer of drama, fiction, and film, as well as a director and actor. He is the recipient of a Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas and a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. His work has translated into Spanish and Italian, produced in Europe, Australia, and the US, and is studied in Latin America, Europe, and North America. As a director and actor he has worked at theatres across Canada, from the Stratford Festival to the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.