Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione and Alberto Pagliarino
Alessandra Rossi Ghiglione
Alberto Pagliarino
Chiara Agostinetto
Teatro Popolare Europeo and Dispari Teatro
The show Foodbox is produced as part of the cascade funding call of the Onfoods Extended Partnership “Research and Innovation Network on Food and Nutrition Sustainability, Safety and Security” (Spoke 7 “Policy, Behaviour and Education”) – National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 “Education and Research” – Component 2 “From Research to Business” – Investment 1.3, Funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU (CUP J33C22002860001).
Foodbox is a theatrical journey along the routes of food – the food we produce, the food that travels, and the food we consume, both past and present. It is a poetic atlas contained within 25 boxes, each marked with a date and a place to tell the stories of traditions, innovations, and contradictions in the world of food, from production to distribution and consumption.
Created through extensive research – drawing on insights and perspectives from geography, history, anthropology, sociology, and investigative journalism – the show is built on scientific data, weaving it together with pop culture, literature, and music.
On stage, cardboard boxes are transformed into storytelling opportunities, exploring authentic and “fake” food traditions, the diversity and hybridization of culinary cultures, and the contrasting global and local models of production and distribution. It addresses contemporary contradictions: the tension between collective “gastromania” and widespread food poverty, of foods saved and those forgotten, of forced conviviality and soulful banquets.
Tokyo 2002, Tivoli 2nd century BC, Nuenen 1885, Po Valley 1957… From each of the 25 boxes emerges a food, an object, or a piece of music to set a table on stage. With both irony and intensity, this table tells the story of the myriad ways humanity has sourced and shared food, while often leaving many others away from the table.
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