My overall impression
If good theater is supposed to make you think, then this is good theater. There is so much going on under the surface of the story in Feeding Time…starting with the title. What feeds us? Who feeds us? And how do we relate to the people we expect to fulfill our needs? The acting was (as expected) top rate. I have seen Toni Loppnow and Michael Allen in plays together before. What I was not expecting was the dialogue (or two monologues?) during their “sex” scene…the only the time the female lead was allowed to speak with coherence…speaking volumes to the world of disconnect between what men want from women, what women want from men, and what men think women want from men. Maybe the whole play was written (artfully by M. Pavone) from the point of view of the male lead…which is why the female lead only spoke in strange riddles. There may be some deep truth to the old chestnut that men haven’t got a clue about what makes women tick.
