Pass the Spoon

Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan.

World premiere of a spectacular new production created by hugely popular visual artist David Shrigley, award-winning composer David Fennessy and Magnetic North's Artistic Director Nicholas Bone. Read more …

What can we say about Pass the Spoon?

Well…
It’s a show with actors, music and food.
It’s a bit like an opera, but with vegetables and fruit.
It’s about cooking.
It’s possibly the only show you’ll see this year featuring a dung beetle.
Oh and someone gets eaten. Did we mention that?

More information on this production is available at www.magneticnorth.org.uk.

The critical consensus

There’s no denying the gorgeous, poster-paint-coloured skill and style of Nicholas Bone’s fine production; or the pure pleasure and exhilaration on the faces of the audience, as they pour out into a wet Glasgow night.

(*) Joyce McMillan, 19/11/2011

Sandwiched between the knife-sharp wit and biting satire lies a scathing examination of modern culture which parodies the scale of escalation seen in the modern world.

(*) Callum, TV Bomb, 20/11/2011

Shrigley’s TV cooking show-based yarn is an irresistibly irreverent riot of surreally-grotesque humour and avant-garde music that waves a refreshing two fingers at serious theatrical conventions even as it takes them to the max.

The Herald, 21/11/2011

Occasionally , PTS’ humour just doesn’t seem as scabrous as the best of Shrigley’s animated work – a tad too gentle, maybe? Mostly, though, it works, an undeniably fun, hi-octane show bursting with ideas and genius puppetry.

(*) (*) Missy Lorelei, The Skinny, 05/03/2012

A work of unbridled genius.

Thom Dibdin, Annals of Edinburgh Stage, 27/04/2012