A nightmare applicant seduces and terrorizes his/her interviewers in this genderless comedy featuring apocryphal saints, bizarre racial conflict, and cheese from human breast milk. A straight, gay, lesbian or bisexual play, depending entirely on how it's cast. How far would you go to get a job? Not this far. Number 5 on Top Ten List of Off-Broadway Plays – New York Newsday 2001
Cast:
MERRITT, an interviewee
CHRIS, a grantwriter
JEAN, a human resources coordinator
ROYCE, a director of development
HOLLIS, a curator of modern art
SIDNEY, a trustee
PINKY, a museum director
NEW MERRITT, an interviewee
In the original production of Eat the Runt at Mefisto Theatre in New York, eight actors of a variety of ethnicities and genders each memorized all eight roles, and the audience cast the play each night. As this proved to be an effective way to explore the play’s themes (with more than 40,000 possible variations), this version of the script incorporates the audience participation element.
Doubling (if desired to reduce the cast to five) may be as follows: ROYCE/SIDNEY and PINKY/JEAN/HOLLIS.
