INTERVIEW
with Giles Cooper
talking about
Nigel Slater's TOAST
Palace Theatre, Westcliff on Sea
3rd to 7th September 2019
with Giles Cooper
talking about
Nigel Slater's TOAST
Palace Theatre, Westcliff on Sea
3rd to 7th September 2019
Following its world premier at The Lowry, Salford in May, a sold-out run as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and a London transfer to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Other Palace, Nigel Slater’s Toast will be touring the UK, stopping off at Southend’s Palace Theatre from the 3rd to the 6th of September.
The play has been written by the rather aptly named Henry Filloux-Bennett and directed by, 'Essex boy', Jonnie Riordan. Toast vividly recreates Nigel Slater’s childhood in the 1960s, through the tastes and smells he shares with his mother, culminating in the young Nigel’s escape to London. From making the perfect sherry trifle, through the playground politics of sweets, the rigid rules of restaurant dining, and a domestic war over cakes, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and…toast. It is based on Nigel Slater's award-winning autobiography, Toast, which won the bestselling author, presenter and The Observer food columnist, the British Book Awards Biography of the Year,
The play has been written by the rather aptly named Henry Filloux-Bennett and directed by, 'Essex boy', Jonnie Riordan. Toast vividly recreates Nigel Slater’s childhood in the 1960s, through the tastes and smells he shares with his mother, culminating in the young Nigel’s escape to London. From making the perfect sherry trifle, through the playground politics of sweets, the rigid rules of restaurant dining, and a domestic war over cakes, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and…toast. It is based on Nigel Slater's award-winning autobiography, Toast, which won the bestselling author, presenter and The Observer food columnist, the British Book Awards Biography of the Year,
Nigel with Giles on set
Giles Cooper with Lizzie Muncie playing Nigel and 'mum'