Details

While sharing their recipes, Israelis and Palestinians - Christians, Jews and Muslims - also reveal how they manage to live in a land of walls, checkpoints and suicide bombings. Every person in this play is real. They each have a story to tell, and sometimes those stories, like recipes, gain strength by being collected together. Kusa mahshi u waraq (stuffed courgette and stuffed vine leaves) jostles with gefilte fish; Thai stir fry with barbequed goat's testicles; fattoush (stale bread salad) and kibbeh (pounded wheat and lamb) with Greek salad. For divided communities who still have a land and its produce in common, this is a cookbook like no other.

Cast/Performers

Sheila Hancock, Keith Bartlett, Amanda Boxer, Tom McKay, Daniel Pirrie, Abigail Thaw, Ben Turner, Jerome Willis

Creatives/Company

Author: Robin Soans
Producer(s): John Caird Company, Gate Theatre
Director(s): Rima Brihi, Tim Roseman
Design: Rachel Blues
Lighting: David Plater
Sound: Neil Alexander