Showing posts with label Eating Pomegranates Naked. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eating Pomegranates Naked. Show all posts

Sunday, August 11, 2013

Review: (Toronto) Eating Pomegranates Naked (SummerWorks)

Secrets Will Out. 
by Ramya Jegatheesan
@RamyaJImages

Five friends are at a dinner party. There’s a discarded pregnancy test, a snoopy new wife, a single thoughtless off-the-cuff remark and the devastating revelation that follows. That’s all it takes to set off the chain reaction of confessions and confrontations that lays bare the internal organs of the play’s romantic relationships but also threatens to rupture them. 

Andrea Scott’s Eating Pomegranates Naked forces us to grapple with some deep questions. What does it mean to be a woman? To be married? To be infertile? And what place does truth have in a relationship?