Don't Feed the Actors (We Will)

The props list for Painting Churches by Tina Howe reads like a long menu. Literally. The play calls for tapioca pudding and Sara Lee banana cake, among other things, to be eaten onstage. Don't worry, we train our casts not to deliver lines with their mouths full.

 I remember when the play went to the Kennedy Center somebody telling me, I think I heard it right, that they spent—is this possible—$12,000 a week on the food. - Tina Howe on using real food as props in one production