FEAST: a play in one cooking

By Olivia Negrean, adapted from William Shakespeare

Translator: Olivia Negrean

Company name: Parable

Company country: UK

Director: Philip Parr

Distribution:

Sara Barison – Isabella 

Beatrice Bowden – Emilia

Hannah Lucas – Imogen

Olivia Negrean - Ophelia

Marie Rabe – Lady Macbeth

Charlie Coletta – Lady Anne

The creative team:

Costumes: Rachel Cole-Wilkin

Producer: Skylar Mabry

Show synopsis:

Mothers, daughters, lovers, leaders. Six characters created by Shakespeare, six women of different nationalities, six stories that still surprise us today. But what do they do when they are not in their own tracks? They meet at a festive dinner.

And even if they are not the best cooks or sophisticated thinkers, whatever they do, they do with passion. Where will it end this time?

Maybe we'll find out by dessert.

Come on, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to bust all the bullshit!

Company description:

Parrabola is a cultural organization specializing in community engagement through active creative participation. We have a small artistic and management team that brings together independent artists and cultural craftspeople to collaborate on workshops, community pieces, outdoor art projects and development programs. We have a long track record of working with a wide variety of communities in the UK and internationally.

Annually, we organize the York International Shakespeare Festival and produce small-scale theater performances – often in collaboration with other organisations. Recently, FEAST: a play in one cooking participated in the Verona Shakespeare Festival in August 2023.

Director biography:

An experienced theatre, opera and festival director, Philip is often in demand as an expert creative producer in programming, project management and artistic facilitator in the UK or internationally. His theater work includes both projects in major theaters and small rural tours with a strong emphasis on promenade theater. His community theatre, most notably with Parrabbola, got him invitations all over the UK and Europe.

Philip has been staff director of the Glyndebourne Opera Festival, the Bayerisches Staatsoper and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. He was the founder and artistic director of Spitalfields Market Opera, a purpose-built hall for chamber music in London and the first opera house built in London in the last 100 years. Philip has directed for Swaledale Festival and Bath Shakespeare Festival, is a board member and more recently Chair of the European Shakespeare Festivals network. He is director of the York International Shakespeare Festival.

Director nominations and/or awards:

Pericles – Movesie Award for Best European Community Project

Henry V – Best Independent Shakespeare Production, Ostrava Shakespeare Festival

Show duration: 1h 30 minutes (without break)