Eating Tomorrow | Adelaide Festival 2021 review

Post Dining makes you feel uncomfortable and thoughtful about what our future and the food that comes with it might look like.

Eating Tomorrow – Adelaide Fringe 2021. Picture: Supplied

Eating Tomorrow

Interactive / Theatre

Rating: ****

Basement at WEA Learning Centre

Season ended

The WEA basement is an unusual place for a Fringe show. That’s the point of this world premiere.

Creative production company Post Dining want to make you feel uncomfortable and thoughtful about what our future (and the food that comes with it) might look like.

The imaginative journey begins with headsets and a confronting video that provides a glimpse into the world as it is today; the good, the bad and the ugly.

Eating Tomorrow – Adelaide Fringe 2021. Picture: Supplied

Audience members are herded through a variety of scenarios and small snacks; from an encounter with the boss of a large corporation, a stern security guard handing out protein rations, and a moving moment in a bunker while the wind and world howls outside.

The final “chapter” is touching, thought-provoking and stirs the senses in all the right ways.

As immersive theatre goes, it needs some polishing (the sounds from other areas are a bit distracting) but has the potential to be outstanding.

If you’re not talking about people, food, environment, sustainability and culture when you leave, you’ve probably missed the point.