New Danville comedy: It's like Martha Stewart meets Jerry Springer

By: Tiffany Holland | GoDanRiver.com
Published: February 16, 2012

A new comedy is coming to the Little Theatre of Danville.

For the first time, “Kitchen Witches” will be performed on Feb. 24-26 at the Mount Hermon Courtyard Theatre.

The play follows two women who host a cable-access cooking show who have hated each other for 30 years, but circumstances put them together on a television show called the “Kitchen Witches” where the insults are flung harder than the food.

The play’s director, Madalyn Mohamed, calls the play a mix of Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer. While the show is not profane, it is more of an adult comedy — which she said is funny from beginning to end with a few touching scenes in between.

“Do you have a close friend, and you guys just bicker?” asked Mohamed. “It’s kind of like that. Like Martha Stewart and Paula Deen meet.”

The show is written to take place in Canada, but organizers at the Little Theatre thought it would be more fitting to change the Canadian references to local ones. They made one of the characters from Dry Fork, for example, and drop the names of several businesses in town.

Holland reports for the Danville Register & Bee.

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If you go

» Tickets are $18 and include light hors d’oeuvres and dessert.

» The show will be 7 p.m. Feb. 24-25 and 2 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Mount Hermon Courtyard Theatre.

» Tickets are available at the Stratford Conference Center or at Rippe’s and Foxglove stores in Danville.