Teatro Container: La Cocina Pública (2018)
This was another favourite of mine over the years. Away from the centre of Milton Keynes, in West Bletchley, this outreach project saw a shipping container from Chile placed next to a block of flats. Over the following days it opened to reveal a travelling kitchen and the theatre company’s artists engaged with the local residents to discuss recipes and memories, make aprons and plan a celebration outdoor dinner event with food and a performance about migration.
To document the various stages of this project and see the joy and engagement with the locals was amazing; one of the dinners was slightly frustrated by a massive thunder storm, but the way everyone pitched in to help move everything into the local community centre was actually an added bonus bonding experience.
You can see a fuller set of my images from La Cocina Pública here.