Roots
A site-specific theatrical journey into the future of food.
The time is ripe for digging. As cheap imported fruit and veg rapidly become a thing of the past, Kilter invited people to grab a spade and elope to the allotment for a theatrical journey into the future of food.
Through an intimate tale of love and vegetables, Kilter took the audience down the bean rows to explore food security in a post-oil world. Friendly, welcoming characters tinkered with their seedlings whilst the audience up-turned a pot and took the weight off their feet.
Roots split the audience between attitudes to food in 1950 & 2050: everything from Smash to Nano, and took place at the Bath Organic Group Allotments in Victoria Park, Bath.
Roots was kindly supported by Bath & North East Somerset Council, and Arts Council England, and played to a sell-out audience at Bath Organic Group Allotments in Victoria Park, Bath in 2009.
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After the success of Roots, Kilter was commissioned to adapt the show for touring by the ICIA at the University of Bath - read more about Roots Replanted.
"provocative without being preachy, witty and amusing without being flippant, and highly entertaining… This is precisely the kind of relevant, developmental creative work that public money should be spent upon."
– Peter Salt, B&NES Arts Development Department
"completely unique… refreshingly original and a real slice of bohemian magic. This was such an intimate and organic piece of contemporary art that the audience left the allotments with an experience that will last long after the trees have shed their leaves. Highly recommended."
- Bath Chronicle
Partners
Roots was kindly supported using public funding from Bath & North East Somerset Council Arts Development Department, and Arts Council England.
