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REVIEW: Omnium Gatherum

By Matthew Murray

Talkin' Broadway

Hungry? I know just the place for you. A dinner party where the courses are pan-roasted Columbia River salmon, roasted Moroccan spiced lamb, Belgian endive and Anjou pear salad, and a non-stop volley of furious opinions offered up by a diverse group of guests who'll eat, drink, and laugh themselves into oblivion and beyond.

Welcome to the world of Omnium Gatherum, the appetizing new play (and hit of the 2003 Humana Festival) by Theresa Rebeck and Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros at the Variety Arts Theatre. It's a place on the edge of reality and fantasy, a bridge between Earth and Hell, created - like our own, dangerous new world - with the collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

But while this dinner party may or may not actually exist, its participants are all too real, eight people from very different walks of life, each with strong opinions about the right way and the wrong way to look at any issue. They've all been brought together by Suzie (Kristine Nielsen), a perky ever-smiling Martha Stewart-type domestic goddess intent on serving perfect food at a perfect table around which perfect debate about all sorts of topics is the order of the evening.

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