The Last Lunch
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It's Sunday lunch, and where the roast should be, there's a tofu wiener casserole instead. Albert, a butcher, is mortified and questions his wife Jean who has put it on the table. Why has she? One of their twins, Mark, a vegan, and his opinionated vegan spiritual-midwife girlfriend Julie, are coming to lunch, and Albert takes it all very personally. Twin sister Maddy, is on her way too, with 16 her year old daughter, Hannah, who has an intense personal secret she needs to share. Everyone is converging on Albert's house, including beef-farmer Pete, (father to Hannah's dreamy boyfriend, Andy), abattoir worker Dave, (and his set of large knives), Andy himself, Sam (Albert and Jean's youngest, just back from fighting in Afghanistan, and bearing frightful news) and the spirits of some of the animals that Dave, Pete and Albert have, between them, been instrumental in dispatching. All is set for a monumental clash of beliefs, values, knives,... and hearts. On the farm one boy spends hours listening to the animals. Their cries and calls to each other, to the wind and to the Gods. In The Last Lunch, butchers and vegans find strange common ground, and common ancient knowledge, locked away in tombs buried for millennia. Now deeply hidden secrets must emerge, and new disturbing secret pacts must be made. A blood blessing is required. To seal the family in, for ever.
Archive :: play:S616880336, venue:V167
Production details
Part of the Summer Arts Festival.
