Saw the Wooster Group's Brace Up the other night at St Anne's Workshop in Brooklyn w Joshua. It's lively, fast-paced and playful enough (the customary WG use of video, narration, telescoping of scenes) to keep one off-balance without obscurantism. The ur-text is Three Sisters, filtered thru' the medium of tv talkshows. It's odd how one still "reads" different actors' performances (some more caricaturish, some more introspective), despite all the alienation-effect stuff like having a sixty-something actress (Beatrice Roth) play the youngest sister Irina. Good stuff. Thru March 19th.
Afterwards went to (spurious Flash alert) Chez Es-Saada on First Street. The new executive chef is Paul Liebrandt, (ex- Atlas and Papillon). In brief: tasty anchovy-and-merguez app, but overpriced quail & lamb couscous ($25) and dry duck tagine, unadventurous wine list, spotty service -- disappointing overall from the dining POV tho' the basement was pretty full of lounging drinkers. What's the minimum time someone has to spend onsite to qualify as executive chef?
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Afterwards went to (spurious Flash alert) Chez Es-Saada on First Street. The new executive chef is Paul Liebrandt, (ex- Atlas and Papillon). In brief: tasty anchovy-and-merguez app, but overpriced quail & lamb couscous ($25) and dry duck tagine, unadventurous wine list, spotty service -- disappointing overall from the dining POV tho' the basement was pretty full of lounging drinkers. What's the minimum time someone has to spend onsite to qualify as executive chef?
- bruno 3-08-2003 8:37 pm