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Comfort Food
“Fully satisfying.” —Glenn Sumi, So Sumi
Bette, a beloved YouTube cooking sensation, built her brand as a relatable single mother with her toddler sous chef, KitKat, by her side. Now the host of a major network show, she struggles to stay palatable while teenage Kit grows increasingly withdrawn, his emergent climate activism leading him into the radical corners of the Internet. When the network pressures Bette to spice up her show and Kit asks to make a guest appearance to promote his niche online channel, the generational rift between them turns their televised reunion into a recipe for disaster.
Incisive, edgy, and deliciously funny, Zorana Sadiq’s Comfort Food picks apart the performative identities and echo chambers of our insatiable culture of spectacle and consumption. Exploring familial love, planetary inheritance, and the radicalization of chronically online youth, this potent play asks if our feeds provide the nourishment we truly hunger for.
“Fully satisfying.” —Glenn Sumi, So Sumi
Bette, a beloved YouTube cooking sensation, built her brand as a relatable single mother with her toddler sous chef, KitKat, by her side. Now the host of a major network show, she struggles to stay palatable while teenage Kit grows increasingly withdrawn, his emergent climate activism leading him into the radical corners of the Internet. When the network pressures Bette to spice up her show and Kit asks to make a guest appearance to promote his niche online channel, the generational rift between them turns their televised reunion into a recipe for disaster.
Incisive, edgy, and deliciously funny, Zorana Sadiq’s Comfort Food picks apart the performative identities and echo chambers of our insatiable culture of spectacle and consumption. Exploring familial love, planetary inheritance, and the radicalization of chronically online youth, this potent play asks if our feeds provide the nourishment we truly hunger for.
First produced by Crow’s Theatre, Toronto, in association with Zorana Sadiq, from May 13 to June 8, 2025.Zorana is a great cook and feeding people is her love language.
“A superb achievement.”
Comfort Food stylishly locates the existential drama of our Anthropocene and the Internet age
satirizing modern society’s fetishes for comfort and wasteful consumption by refracting one spectacle into the other.”
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“A deep dive into our relationships with food
and what happens when that all starts to crumble.”
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Dimensions:
120 Pages
8.38in * 5.38in * 0.25in
0.25lb
.25lb
Published:
September 08, 2026
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ISBN:
9780369106506
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Language:
eng
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