Is it a comedy or a political thriller? “Recipe,” currently playing at the Bravo! Theatre, can’t seem to make up its mind … which is a good thing.
The play, directed by Suki O’Brien and Randy Warren, is funny enough to keep you entertained and has plenty of shocking (and not so funny) twists to make you think.
The plot centers around a group of four older women who call themselves the Morning Glory Baking Circle for Revolutionary Self-Defense. They are avowed Communists and have been holding bake sales to fund revolutionary causes for many years. The play is set in the home of retired teacher Lillian (Marcy Weiland). We see her and her long-time girlfriend Helen (Roberta Rubin) preparing their baked goods while also preparing for a special guest. We later meet the two other members of the baking circle, hippie-chick Janice (Sharon Jarvis) and paranoid former New Yorker Ruth (Marsha Heaton).
Ruth is none too happy about the group’s special guest, reporter and former Army Sergeant Diane (Louis Reid Ritchie). Ruth thinks the others don’t take the secrecy of the group seriously and she worries that Diane’s planned interview will bring the government crashing in to shut them down before they can wire their decades-long bake sales proceeds to their chosen revolutionary group.
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