My Kitchen Wars
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 17, 2004
Closed May 2, 2004
Opened Mar 17, 2004
Closed May 2, 2004
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1hr. 30min.
1hr. 30min.
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In My Kitchen Wars, Dorothy Lyman portrays food writer Betty Fussell as she dishes out lessons learned, both in and out of the kitchen, during the course of an unusual thirty-year marriage. As Fussell's culinary skills go from hot dogs to lobster bisque, her marriage to distinguished historian Paul Fussell seems to crumble. Shedding the role of 1950s faculty wife, Fussell emerges as an independent woman in conflict with her husband's expectation of a wife. Separate roles, love affairs and accomplishments ultimately drive wife and husband to separation.
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Set designers this year have been challenged as perhaps never before with kitchens. For Dorothy Lyman's adaptation of Betty Fussell's memoir, My Kitchen Wars, George H. Landry has designed a very homey example. Its hominess may seem quite at odds with the play's title until that title is explained.
Lyman, who also plays the author, notes early in her monologue that "the French got it right when they christened the kitchen arsenal the batterie de cuisine." She goes on to say that "Cooking is a brutal business. If we are to live, others must die...I've spent most of my life doing kitchen battle, feeding others and myself." (Incidentally, designer Landry interrupts his kozy kitchen at its mid[...]