Cheap Thrills. The plays.

Bon Appetit.

Elton Tusk, the richest man in the world, is hosting a banquet to top all banquets. He meets the chef he's hired for a planning meeting, only to realise that he's made one rather important and ultimately deadly mistake.

The one where the billionaire gets his brain eaten. I bet you can't guess who Elton Tusk is inspired by? In fairness though, it could be any of them. Anyone who's ever stiffed the little guy and bankrupted another guy's life's work rather than pay a simple bill. Whatever happens to those guys? Oh yes, they get richer. And elected.

Props

Sound and Lighting.

Sound of drill (optional).

Notes

The drilling of the skull.
It's not a serious piece. We got a jelly (jello) mold of a human brain intending to make a silicon cast, but the mold itself was fine. The chef's hat is obviously a semi comical way of getting the effect onto Edwin's head. Audiences have been kind enough to go with it. Then we used a child's battery operated drill to (pretend to! I don't actually need to say that do I? Do I?) drill a hole in his skull. Kate created a gooey piece of I think papier mache coated with either stage blood or jam for the skull, then our brain mold had a convenient depression in the top big enough for the porridge / jam mix we used for brains. The whole arrangement worked fine, although it's unlikely to win any Oscars.

Script and License

This one is published. The full script can be read at this link and a professional license can be obtained there. I can issue "promotion" licenses for small productions, email me if you'd like one.

First Production

Bon Appetit was first produced at the Underground Club on the 1st December 2023 with the following cast:

Chef's kiss.

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