This is a new project in development, aiming to tour in the summer with Footloose. It is an interactive musical piece exploring the nature of food in the 21st century – what we eat and why, and the impact of a profit-driven, global food production system on all forms of life as well as human society. Ultra-processed food is literally making people ill. There are more domesticated animals than wild animals in the world today. Oil is running out – but governments are not doing enough to support local food production to ensure all people are eating well, no matter their income or where they live. Food is a necessity, not a commodity.
The piece will use humour and music to map out alternatives to a corporate-driven globalised food system in order to create a fairer, healthier food system that will not destroy the planet. It is participatory – audience are invited to join in choruses, and maybe even sing with the Ugly Vegetables.
What people eat is a geopolitical issue. How we produce and share food worldwide has to change, in order to slow down the heating of the planet and protect the ecosystems on which all life depends.