The Premiere of How to Eat an Orange – two reviews
Award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux’s latest play premiered in New York City in May of this year. The piece introduces audiences to the remarkable life and work of Argentinian human rights activist and artist Claudia Bernardi.
“How to Eat an Orange”
Review by Naranjani Reddi/Theatre Beyond Broadway
“‘How to Eat an Orange’ by Catherine Filloux is an intimate, soaring one-woman show that showcases an entirely different perspective of those who endured the military junta in Buenos Aires. So many disappeared – but who is there when their bodies reappear?”
“How to Eat an Orange”
Review by John R. Ziegler and Leah Richards/Thinking Theater NYC
“While there is chronological progression built into the show’s structure, it works in tandem with a more memorial type of movement, looping back to certain events or feelings or moving in unexpected directions, as when, in the beginning of the show, Bernardi is in fact showing us how she eats an orange when some flowers on her table divert her to childhood memories of her and her sister, Patricia, or Patri, eating citrus blossoms in the belief that it would make them beautiful – an act that also, in their father’s admonition to give the flowers a chance to mature into fruit, figures the cutting short of lives and their potential.”