Why do we go out to eat? As urban affluence increases, food, cooking, and dining out demand an increasing percentage of our time, budget, energy, and even emotions. It’s pretty damn strange.
The restaurant industry is also demanding of its employees, luring them in with the promises of cash-in-hand and flexible hours and then locking them down forever with a modestly lucrative income, free alcohol, and copious sex. In every restaurant industry lifer there are dozens of unrealized dreams and failed relationships. But how else are you going to make $60K a year working 25 hours a week?
In Fishing, Thomas, the brilliant but caustic chef, and Sandra, the ennui-riddled manager, attempt to hold together a hot new restaurant where sardonic waiters and kinky foodies are the least of their problems. The lines between food and sex, jobs and relationships blur and bend in a profane and irreverent satire.
About the Company
OpenTab Productions is a new theatre company focused on creating relatable, approachable theatre. Formed by veteran actors Alex Plant, Matt Ingle and Ben Euphrat, the company is dedicated to presenting high quality productions that are honest, funny, sexy, raw, and sometimes raunchy. Frustrated with the deliberately and off-puttingly avant-garde and weird-for-weird’s-sake nature of some local theater, the three formed OpenTab to create shows that the average person can enjoy.
About the show
Why do we go out to eat? As urban affluence increases, food, cooking, and dining out demand an increasing percentage of our time, budget, energy, and even emotions. It’s pretty damn strange.
The restaurant industry is also demanding of its employees, luring them in with the promises of cash-in-hand and flexible hours and then locking them down forever with a modestly lucrative income, free alcohol, and copious sex. In every restaurant industry lifer there are dozens of unrealized dreams and failed relationships. But how else are you going to make $60K a year working 25 hours a week?
In Fishing, Thomas, the brilliant but caustic chef, and Sandra, the ennui-riddled manager, attempt to hold together a hot new restaurant where sardonic waiters and kinky foodies are the least of their problems. The lines between food and sex, jobs and relationships blur and bend in a profane and irreverent satire.
About the Company