The Last Meal Man, Knife & Fork, 2012
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Co-Directed and Devised by Erica Barnes and Dani Bryant

"...One of the festival's highlights—is Last Meal Man by Dani Bryant/Erica Barnes. Building on the actual last-meal requests of five well-known convicts, Bryant depicts a kind of last supper of the damned, with diners ranging from Gary Gilmore, the subject of Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song (he asked for whiskey), to Troy Anthony Davis, the prisoner who was killed by the state of Georgia last year despite questions about testimony in his case (he declined a meal). Bryant writes with compassion and demonstrates a keen eye for the telling detail. She capitalizes on the ritualistic aspect of mealtime and the power certain foods have to transport us back to childhood, recognizing, for instance, the heart-piercing poignancy in a desire to leave this world with a bellyful of Dr. Pepper and German chocolate cake." Zac Thomson (Chicago Reader)

Starring: 
Torey Adkins, Brandon Boler, Jason Economus, Jose Tony Garcia, Sarah Rose Graber, Dani Bryant ​