A High-Gear Trip Through Life, From Soup to Nuts
Charles IsherwoodMarch 21, 2012: It would probably be wise to eat dinner before attending “The Big Meal,” a new play by Dan LeFranc that opened Wednesday night at Playwrights Horizons. The consumption of plates of everyday foods — chicken fingers and fries, spaghetti, mashed potatoes — becomes charged with ominous portent in this comic drama about love, marriage, child rearing and the general brisk rush of human life, in which you turn around and find that youth has vamoosed and taken with it a lot of your dearest held assumptions about the way things would turn out.
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