The kitchen of the house where Rachel grew up is one of those luxuriously capacious rooms that look so alluring in the pages of glossy magazines. Airy and tasteful, with lots of white and lots of light, it has plenty of counter space for preparing meals and an abundance of spots to sit, eat, talk.

A kitchen like this can put food at the center of affluent family life, and in Domenica Feraud’s potent, layered new drama “Rinse, Repeat,” that’s absolutely where it is for Rachel and her mother, Joan — just not in any remotely healthy, happy way.

Directed by Kate Hopkins at the Pershing Square Signature Center, the play opens with Rachel (Ms. Feraud) arriving home to Greenwich, Conn., for the first time in four months. She’s an undergraduate at Yale with a 4.0 G.P.A., but she hasn’t been away in New Haven. She’s been an inpatient at a treatment center, clawing her way back toward health from the anorexia that almost killed her.

Her parents, alas, were too consumed with work to pick her up for a trial weekend to see if she’s ready to be released. So she’s taken an Uber — the first of many signs that Joan (Florencia Lozano) and Peter (Michael Hayden), for all their love of their daughter, have failed to grasp the fragility of her recovery.