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Orion Ross, author and director of Zora's Kitchen agreed to speak with The Crimson about writing his first play...
...While Zora (Jennifer Davidson) holds court with a frying pan for a barrister, the wacky characters take us back through the sequences and impulses that led to the crime...
Davidson is equally entertaining as Zora, the one who wears the pants in the relationship. Although her exchanges with Adam tend to be less convincing than the rest of her performance, she plays her part with excellent timing and gusto, and her facial expressions are even funnier than some of her lines. She also creates a rapport with the audience, full of wide eyes and exasperated glances. Her character is ballsy and funny, the glue that holds the story together...
...which he "has" phone sex and masturbates. He remains in perfect tandem with the other players, darting about the stage, typing frantically on his lap-top computer and molesting Adam. His interaction with the audience, the other characters and with his props--coffee mug, knife, parts of Zora's body--are fully developed and fully enthralling...
...Zora's Kitchen, although at times unnecessarily profane, is brazen and bold. It is a clever mockery of and quasi-investigation into age-old and contemporary questions--what does it mean to be an artist? a lover? or just a repressed asshole in the ad industry in New York in the '90s--all done with a healthy heaping of satire. You may go away horny, but you won't go away hungry...