Review: Conversations While Dining Alone by Ken Johnson

by Hannah Bisewski
Published on January 16, 2012

Conversations While Dining Alone is an exercise in humanity, in stepping into the shoes of another person, probably someone less fortunate than yourself, and trying on that plight for size.

An evening at the Dougherty Arts Center for Ken Johnson’s Conversations While Dining Alone is a voyage into the brooding, lonely thoughts of the saddest people we know. Or maybe into those of just about everyone we know. These original monologues capture some of the ideas we have when we’re alone, the frustrations and the very ugliest thoughts that haunt our quieter moments.   Chuck Merlo enters and seats himself at a desk, places a McDonalds breakfast …

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