Lidia’s Brunch Theatre needs a tastier show

A creative collaboration between Lidia’s Kansas City and the Living Room theater troupe, Brunch Theatre, kicked off last Saturday and Sunday with a show that the director, Alex Espy, calls an “environmental experience.” It’s a comedy about a restaurant that’s set in a restaurant featuring a waiter who isn’t really a waiter. It’s really a play that isn’t really a play in any traditional sense, but a very raucous and very physical cartoon.

I liked the brunch a great deal, the show not so much. But I’m thinking that I’m not the right demographic for a folly like The Accidental Waiter. The Lidia’s brunch on Saturdays and Sundays is designed for a relatively sophisticated and adult palate. The play, however, is for children.