An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf

What would you do if someone announced to you that they were going to kill themselves? Michael Hollinger, playwright of An Empty Plate was once advised to “write what you know” and though a coworker of his did, in fact, inform him of her decision to off herself (she is, thankfully, alive and in good health), he used that experience as the basis for his play­—but also to discover something new. An Empty Plate revolves around one man’s decision to walk into a restaurant and announce his fate, yet through Hollinger’s writing process to uncover why this man would want to end his life, the author learned about life, love and longing. And he hopes audiences discover something, too.
Thu., May 28, 2 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 2 p.m.; Tuesdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Thu., June 11, 2 p.m.; Sun., June 21, 7 p.m. Starts: May 28. Continues through June 28, 2009