Bated Breath Company’s Hunger in Hartford

Frank Rizzo, The Hartford Courant

The show: “Hunger”
The place:  Real Arts Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford
What is it? An experiential play by the new Hartford-based Bated Breath Theatre Company, with the audience following the action at various spaces at Real Art Ways.

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Bated Breath’s Hunger is Both Feast and Famine through October 2

Jacques Lamarre, Broadwayworld.com

Bated Breath Theatre Company and playwright Chantal Bilodeau show insight into our collective subconscious at the beginning of their immersive theatre experience Hunger, playing now through October 2 at Hartford’s home for edgy artistry, Real Art Ways.  As we watch actors seductively and suggestively drizzle tempered chocolate over deliciously round, cream-filled profiteroles we are watching something akin to the “money shot” in pornography.  Yes, chocolate can be better than sex.  And in this at-times-fascinating and at-times-frustrating meditation on consumption, consumerism and classism, Bilodeau and Bated Breath weave a tale that leaves the audience – like some desserts and sexual encounters – sated, but wanting.  In other words, I left a little hungry.

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Bated Breath’s Hunger Gets Next-Level With Audience Participation (and Cream Puffs!)

Karen Bovard, CT.com

It’s a heady recipe that the local professional theater company Bated Breath has cooked up and will be serving to adventurous theatergoers at Real Art Ways for the next few weeks. In development since 2009, with grant support from the city and the arts council and the Roberts Foundation, this piece aims to mix fun, food politics, and profiteroles — the last provided by Max Restaurant group.

It’s designed to be an “immersive theatre experience” too — so expect to eat, drink, and (if you wish) dance as you move around Real Art Ways galleries following the actors. You can even help finish one actor’s costume: a skintight gown covered in gold candy wrappers.

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