About the Show

Two plays performed in one evening that tell stories of life and loneliness.

This pair of plays is performed together in one evening. Lunch, written by Steven Berkoff, and directed by Richard Romagnoli tells the story of a woman and man, who appear to be strangers, as they engage in a provocative encounter that pushes them to reckon with their loneliness.

In Hot Fudge & Here We Go, both by Caryl Churchill and directed by Cheryl Faraone, death and mourning are explored as the plays drift between conversations among mourners.

Critic Reviews (3)

"The text could be enlivened, even challenged, with more forceful direction. A night of sensual play, manipulation, machinations and tragedy courtesy of two fiery playwrights like Berkoff and Churchill should never leave a room as cool as it does here."
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For its 35th anniversary, PTP/NYC (Potomac Theater Project) continues is exploration of little known British plays by major playwrights with the New York premieres of one acts by Steven Berkoff and Caryl Churchill. The triple bill entitled Sex, Grift and Death includes the first local productions of Berkoff’s Lunch and Churchill’s Here We Go, as well as the first NYC revival of Churchill’s Hot Fudge, last seen here at The Public Theater in 1990. While the productions directed by Richard Romagnoli (Berkoff) and Cheryl Faraone (Churchill) are fine as far as they go, they all seem a little too under heated to be truly theatrical for these in-yer-face, confrontational authors. The evening’s title sums up the themes of this triple bill.
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"Sex, aging, work, illness, death. In this evening of shorts, Berkoff and Churchill lay bare the quintessential parts of life and remind us of just how messy, confusing, difficult, and awe-inducing these fundamental inevitabilities are. "
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