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Chewing the scenery at The Beast

Virginia Gay and Tom Budge in <i>The Beast</i>.
Virginia Gay and Tom Budge in The Beast.Jeff Busby

Epicure was chuffed to have a cameo in Eddie Perfect's biting new satire on food-obsessed Victorian tree-changers, The Beast, on at Melbourne Theatre Company's Sumner Theatre.

When we tweeted about our mention in a speech by actress Virginia Gay's earth-mother aspirant Sue, Perfect replied ''there were more Epicure gags … but they were lost in the brutal cutting-back for time". That may have been brutal but not nearly as much as the hilarious butchering scene that precedes a nose-to-tail dinner party. Gay responded she might caress Epicures (rather than carrots) in our honour.

Join Epicure for a discussion of the play's central question: Could you kill your own dinner? Reader event: The Age Live at Melbourne Theatre Company, Wednesday, October 23; 6.30- 7.30pm. Tickets $30 ($20 for Age subscribers) at theageshop.com.au/thebeast.

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