an electrifying performance… Limelight Magazine
★★★★★
Alice Birbara is pure undiluted power … To me as a qualified chef, it resonates. I know these words, these feelings about food. The love for the seasonal ingredient. Honouring them. The care and detail of plating. Yet Mahfouz' subtly nuanced play is so much more, boldly restorative, quietly political, although we don't realise this until the closing sentences. Or at least I didn't. Sydney Scoop
★★★★.5
Thrilling… recommended without reservation Diana Simmonds
Watching her gently peel back the petals of Chef’s soul to reveal its dark, tragic heart jogs muscle memory of “the first time…” experience of Blanchett or Snook or Debicki. Mark the name Alice Birbara before she’s snapped up and disappears overseas again Stage Noise
★★★★
a masterclass Theatre Thoughts Aus
★★★★
a magnificent piece of theatre Arts Hub
A searing one-woman show about ambition, justice, freedom of choice, and of course, food. As Chef plans the perfect menu she charts the events and relationships in her past that took her from a Michelin starred restaurant to a prison kitchen.
Dir Victor Kalka with Alice Birbara
Lighting Designer Jasmin Borsovszky Sound Designer Ryan Devlin Stage Manager Christopher Starnawski
Produced by Victor Kalka Presented by Virginia Plain
Photography Clare Hawley