David Paul Jones

Programme Note

Multi-award winning Scottish company Grid Iron turn off the lights and conjure up an after-hours world. Returning to their favourite subject, the impact of food on human society, they examine how it can act as a catalyst for unleashing our fears, desires and taboos. Jim Crace’s teasing, dark novella is the basis for a journey into a culinary underworld; an uncanny, uncomfortable examination of the envy, love, revenge, hypocrisy, loss and lust which seethe beneath the false calm of the menu, the shopping list and the recipe.

The production winds a sinuous and treacherous path from narrative episode to story-telling, from installation to song.