One of Grid Iron’s most successful and best-loved shows, The Devil’s Larder returns, winding a sinuous and treacherous path through narrative episode, story-telling, live music and song. Examining the envy, love, hypocrisy, loss and lust which seethe beneath the false calm of the menu, the dinner table and the recipe, Scotland’s site specialists journey into the culinary underworld of Jim Crace’s teasingly dark novella. Read more …
The Devil’s Larder is an experience filled with moments to be relished, even if some of the stories could use a little more sustenance.
The Devil's Larder proves to be a feast for the senses, however deranged they may be.
This sumptuous site-responsive tour touches on food as both source of pleasure and harbinger of mortality.
If the overall impact of the show is muted, though, there’s still a great deal for the imagination to feast on in director Ben Harrison’s latest version of Crace’s fascinating text.
The Devil’s Larder is a deliciously wicked adult treat that is appetisingly apposite so close to Halloween.
The Devil’s Larder is filled with dark poetry of the human condition but with a side plate of wit and quirkiness, which combine to make an endearing piece of theatre.
There is much pleasure to be derived from Crace’s sumptuous writing, which is used to season this collection of yarns to mouth-watering effect.
Jim Crace, Grid Iron Theatre Co and The Devil's Larder
On Tour, from Sunday October 18, 2015, until Sunday November 15, 2015. http://www.gridiron.org.uk/the-devils-larder-tour/.