Home-Cooked: A Cautionary Tale

Love hurts. Friendship hurts more. A triptych consisting of three ten-minute comedies, Home-Cooked documents three best friends in one New York apartment who are brought together by odious ex-boyfriends, tone-deaf viola students, phallic vegetables, peanut butter allergies, and a distaste for the third world.

Read a selection from the script.

Characters

• DORA, a television journalist, 27
• JOANNA, a violist, 28
• ROBBIE, an aspiring actor, 26

Productions

• Jimmy's No. 43 (New York, November 2005)
• Jimmy's No. 43 (New York, January 2006)

Backstory

My friend Lisa wanted to direct a piece for a ten-minute play festival. According to the festival's requirements, the play had to have (i) a dish washer, (ii) a bathroom, and (iii) a vegetable of some sort. Thus the first part of Home-Cooked was born. The next two parts followed when the venue requested that we turn the one ten-minute play into a full evening.