Feast

Whatsonstage.com“Something's gone horribly wrong here...” The writing lacks both strength and subtlety beyond reiterating, almost ad nauseam, that you have to be true to yourself, to your roots and the spirit of contentment; for the Yoruba, self-knowledge is the key to existence. Well, yes, and...?

The Observer“The more that is said, the less effective...” I've rarely seen anything so bursting with visual ideas, so thrumming with interesting sounds and rhythms and so skinnily written...

Exeunt“It’s a feast in which flavours clash, complement and blend... ” Deeply concerned with identity and its roots in past, present and future. There is a profound sense that for those who are born into this culture, being aware of one’s past is integral to the hybrid cultural identity one forges in the modern world.

Financial Times“Where the show excels is in blending music, movement and image... ” The piece is dazzling in places and spliced with wit. But ambition holds it back in the end. The very scope of the piece prevents it from delving deeply into the significant historical moments it depicts...

The Arts Desk“But then... there was the dialogue...” It may be that some of the faults can be ironed out as the cast get as slick with the multiple registers of speech as they are with every other aspect. I hope so because Feast contains a core of something brilliant and revolutionary...

The Telegraph“In conventional terms, they’re dramatic doodles bordering on duds...” A consistently fascinating, hugely energising experience. The overall mood itself – of exuberant defiance and continuity in the face of deracination – is the message, and it’s aimed at the guts not the head...

Guardian“It offers a spectacular feast for the eye...” At the end, the audience went wild; and, even though I think the case for omnipresent Yoruban values is only half-proven, no one could deny the show packs a sensuous punch...

The Stage“Feast is a multicultural explosion for the senses...” Some dazzling projection and film work by Lysander Ashton - pulse through Feast and give a much more potent feel of the rhythmic and wry Yoruba culture than the spoken parts of this epic...