About the Play:

Slow Food is a full-length comedy by Wendy MacLeod. A vacationing couple celebrates their anniversary at a Greek restaurant in Palm Springs, but will the marriage survive an intrusive waiter who insinuates his way into their meal and their lives? Slow Food is a hilariously light-hearted comedy from an extraordinary female playwright.

Slow Food is for anyone who's ever been "hangry." When New York empty-nesters Irene and Peter head to Palm Springs to celebrate their big anniversary, they are envisioning a carefree trip full of rest and relaxation. Instead, they get stuck with a cargo van as their rental car, a nonfunctioning hot tub at their hotel, and Stephen, a highly neurotic waiter at Dmitri's Greek restaurant, the only restaurant that seems to be open late on a Sunday evening. While vans and hot tubs are minor hiccups on their anniversary trip, Stephen proves to be a formidable obstacle to their marital bliss when it becomes clear that he will have them examining everything from their menu choices to their very future together. In this scenario, there's no escaping the world's worst waiter. Will their shared desperation get them their spanakopita or end their marriage? Slow Food is a tender, uproarious comedy that delves deeply into what we hunger for.

Slow Food premiered in 2019 at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Massachuesetts before being produced in regional theatres across the US, from Georgia to Idaho and beyond.

Cast: 1 female, 2 male

What people say:

"…in Slow Food, playwright Wendy MacLeod comes up with every imaginable (and unimaginable) way to delay [the couple's] gratification, while simultaneously serving up 95 minutes of delicious comedy for the audience to relish… If you've never understood the concept of the term hangry, you'll get it after seeing Slow Food… a tasty recipe for a great night at the theater." — BroadwayWorld.com

"…a well-written comedic meditation on marriage." — NETheatreGeek.com

"[Slow Food] generates plenty of laughs from a conflict that most of us have experienced: the desperate fight to have dinner in peace." — ArtsFuse.org

About the Playwright:

Wendy MacLeod is an American playwright. She is Professor of Drama and James Michael playwright-in-residence at her alma mater, Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Best known for the critically acclaimed Women in Jeopardy!, she is the author of some two dozen plays, many informed by what drama critic Kevin Carr called a "spirit of witty and satirical, female-centric humor."