Cash, Keating, Lysy, and Welch Announced for Valentine's Day's EATING THEIR WORDS, 2/14

Aya Cash, Isabel Keating, Austin Lysy, and Christopher Evan Welch will be a part of the Valentine's Day presentation of EATING THEIR WORDS. The event will take place at Tocqueville Restaurant and will present a menu with each course based on one of three different plays. The plays will be presented in tandem with the different courses. Marlo Hunter will direct the evening.

A culinary treat, a cultural fix, and a supper-club social, Eating Their Words creates a one-of-a-kind cultural experience by wedding New York's most innovative chefs with the voices of great American Playwrights. Conceived in 2008 as a celebration of Marlo Hunter's (Founder & Artistic Director) two passions, developing new plays and exploring the inherent theatricality or "story of" a meal, this one-woman labor of love gives its audiences a tailor-made experience wherein food and theater meld into one tantalizing treat for the senses. For each event the company presents three new 20 minute plays, set at a dinner table, an arm's length away from audience members. Attendees surround the performance table, voyeuristically overhearing a "conversation" at a neighboring table. Following each play, the audience indulges in the course they just watched the actors experience. Each course is created by the chef after reading and interpreting the playwrights' scripts. The company produces these unique events at restaurants of note around Manhattan.

For this special holiday event, Tocqueville's Executive Chef and owner, Marco Moreira, will join forces with Pulitzer Prize finalist Theresa Rebeck (Mauritius), playwrights Jonathan Marc Sherman (Things We Want) and Sam Forman (The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall). Under the theme "Food and Romance", Chef Moreira will create an original menu inspired by Sam Forman's World Premiere play, as well as past Eating Their Words' favorites Birth Day by Theresa Rebeck, and The Appetizer by Jonathan Marc Sherman.

The cast will feature Tony Award nominee Isabel Keating (The Boy from Oz), Christopher Evan Welch (Festen, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Austin Lysy (The American Plan), Aya Cash (From Up Here), and Lauren Kay (Wild Party). Founder and Artistic Director, Marlo Hunter, directs. Our October event at Tocqueville was sold out, and guests were raving.

Tocqueville, now entering its tenth year as an industry standard-setter for its warm and efficient service, creative and vibrant kitchen, and connection to the Union Square Greenmarket, is a labor of love for husband and wife team Chef Marco Moreira and Jo-Ann Makovitzky. The Brazilian-born chef first earned acclaim as one of the most talented sushi chefs in New York City before working in some of its finest kitchens and ultimately founding Marco Polo Caterers and Tocqueville with wife and business partner, Jo-Ann Makovitzky. At Tocqueville, Chef Moreira's highly-lauded French-American cuisine is a product of his philosophy that enhancing ingredients' natural flavors will inspire innovative dishes.

Tickets for the February 14th event are now available for secure purchase through the Eating Their Words website at www.eatingtheirwords.com, and are priced as follows: $195.00 for the three courses and performance, $245.00 with a wine pairing, and the $295 VIP package which includes premium seating with a playwright or actor, a tour of the kitchen and a signed program. All tickets include tax and gratuity.

For more information, visit www.eatingtheirwords.com.