A 50s kitchen where the radio DJ is playing music on requests. Outside the flood is knocking on the windows. Dinner is secured by opening the door and catching a fish on its way in. Rebecca is dancing while she’s cooking for a family that no longer exists. Three years have passed since her husband walked out the door to find happiness, later the son followed trying to find his dad. But an optimist like Rebecca does not turn a hair, because one day they’ll come back, and then they will still need something to eat.
Haidles surrealistic text is challenging the naturalistic chamber play using absurdity and splatter in the portrayal of Rebecca’s lonely and desperate struggle to keep the image of domestic bliss despite disturbances of suicide, a Jehovas Witness, a rapist-wanna-be and a whale washing ashore in her kitchen. An entertaining and suggestive work that contains great depth and challenges for actors as well as director and set designer.
