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Georgetown Debuts Adaptation of Omnivore's Dilemma

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    Jeremy Guyton (C’12) stars as The Omnivore’s Dilemma author Michael Pollan. He; his wife, played by Laurel Charnetsky (C’12); and son Isaac, played by Thuy Tran (C’11), share a drive-through meal from McDonald’s.

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    Adrian Iglesias (C’14), left, Betsy Helmer (C’13) and Justin McCarthy (C’12) perform an original song about food cornsumption.

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    From right, Whitney McAniff (C'12) moderates as Betsy Helmer (C’13), Courtney Ulrich (C’11) and Amelia Powell (C’12) participate in an Iron Chef-style battle featuring the secret ingredient -- chicken.

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    Nehemiah Markos (C’14) stars as Angelo Garro. Garro teaches author Michael Pollan, played by Justin McCarthy (C'12), how to dress or skin a pig, played by Justine Underhill (C’11).

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    The performance included several interactive sites spread throughout the theater. Betsy Helmer (C'13), a salmon dyed pink, chats with the audience about her identity crisis.

July 27, 2011 – Natsu Onoda Power, assistant professor of theater, debuted her adaptation of Michael Pollan's best-selling book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, at Georgetown's Davis Performing Arts Center July 26.

Power directs a cast of students in the theater and performance studies program to transform Pollan's work of nonfiction into a participatory experience, which runs through July 31. The performance takes audiences hunting and gathering throughout the Davis Performing Arts Center to forage for information as they experience different site-specific performances and installations about food.

The production engages the question: “What should we have for dinner?” — a quandary that the book's author says has confronted man since the discovery of fire.

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