Roots Replanted
The time is ripe for digging! A touring, site-specific show exploring the future of food.
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.
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.
At each new allotment and community farm we hosted a community tea party a week in advance of the first performance to help us adapt elements of the script to include local references. Scenes were relocated to fit new geography, and plants - from basil to cherry trees - were planted during every show across the region.
As usual, we used recycled props, sets, and costumes, and all performances took place in the open air. Some scenes sheltered in our trademark shed, created entirely from recycled materials found on each site.
Roots Replanted was commissioned in 2010 by the Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts at the University of Bath.
After the success of our site-specific piece Roots in 2009, the ICIA commissioned Kilter to create a touring version of the show: Roots Replanted was born!
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Roots (2009) was kindly supported using public funding from Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Arts Development Department, and Arts Council England.
Read more about Roots (2009)
“A wonderfully original piece. Roots Replanted delivers a tough message… But it’s a delight to experience.”
★★★★
- VENUE Magazine
"A deftly orchestrated, surprising, stylish and moving piece of theatre."
- Kate Yedigaroff, Bristol Old Vic Theatre
"Estimates put the carbon emissions of London’s theatres alone at 50,000 tonnes a year. Few could compete with the model of sustainability offered by Kilter"
- New Statesmen
"…a hugely challenging & inspiring project – getting people to think about food, community & connectivity in a way that doesn’t preach but draws them in bit by bit."
- Sir Jonathan Porritt
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Roots Replanted was commissioned by the ICIA at the University of Bath.
