Mario & Raoul brings together the intensity of performing arts and culinary flavours, substituting scenography with a meal. The food will be prepared by Michelin chef Christopher Haatuft and his team and the performance will take place in the restaurant Lysverket – the same venue where Spreafico Eckly showed At the end of Your Fork ten years ago, and people queued outside to get a seat at the table.
Two people.We don’t know their name, age or profession. Are they a couple? Old friends? Colleagues on a team building exercise? Lovers? Cousins? A mother and her daughter? An uncle and his nephew? We don’t know. They are in the audience for three interconnected shows, each exploring tradition through a critical lens. And as with most theatre goers, they engage in conversations of varying depth before and after these performances.
The setting is a restaurant. The performance takes place on your plate: three courses prepared by the chef and his team, each one reflecting one of the shows being discussed by our fictional pair. A choir sing the conversations in glorious four part harmony.
In a time divided between the urge to advance and the need to preserve, this piece takes its stand with the most innocent traditions; those too slight to be argued over, that live without defence and disappear without resistance.