A Play About a Baby Carrot

A Play About a Baby Carrot is an exceptionally moving, sharply funny, and fiercely original piece of contemporary theater. Intimate, offbeat, and quietly devastating, it handles an untouchable subject with immense empathy, poetic rhythm, and a brilliantly grounded sense of humor. The play embraces surreal and absurd elements to create a beautifully warped exploration of grief where uncertainty and understanding live side by side, exposing the abandonment, disarray, and stubborn unwillingness to let go. The humor never mocks the tragedy; rather, it highlights the messy, awkward, and deeply uncoordinated reality of human grieving — grieving people are clumsy. Amidst the strict rituals and crushing silence of a traditional Jewish shiva, a grieving mother pushes her family to the brink when she becomes convinced that her recently deceased infant daughter has been reincarnated as a backyard carrot—forcing her traditional father and distant husband to confront the limits of their own rigid ways of grieving. Total of 16 performances, Thursday–Sunday, with one Monday show on February 22, 2027.