?Food for Fish? challenges audience to think

Published October 14, 2008 4:00am ET



If your idea of entertaining theater is “Oklahoma!” or any production that involves the players serving you drinks at intermission, walk past Single Carrot Theatre, now about 10 yards east of its previous location on North Avenue. Single Carrot delves the theater of the mind, challenging audiences to think.

Consider its latest production, Adam Szymkowicz’s “Food for Fish.” The play opens with Bobbie (Elliott Rauh), a young, tortured artist (handsome, has a hole in his T-shirt, and uses a typewriter … constantly) writing “The Story of the Boy.” What appears on his page appears on stage, as Bobbie even takes a moment to physically arrange his characters into assorted positions.

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