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| Donal Thoms-Cappello and Chris McKenna star in Taste |
Never have I had a theatre experience quite like the one I had during the world premiere staging of a new play by Benjamin Brand, Taste, presented by the Sacred Fools Theatre here in Hollywood. The story, inspired by real, ‘true crime’ events (in Germany in 2001), can only be described as incomprehensible, horrifying, and tragically beautifully. Directed for the stage by Stuart Gordon, the play introduces the audience to Terry (played by Donal Thoms-Cappello), a meticulous and obsessively focused young man, and Vic (played by Chris McKenna), a nervous shadow of a man desperately seeking purpose in his lonely life. Over the course of one evening, these two meet face to face after having spoken for months via the internet, having made an unbelievable agreement: Vic will allow Terry to kill him under one condition – that Terry eat Vic’s body afterwards...