Geography: Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
Year: 2020
Produced by: Contemporary Asian Australian Performance (CAAP); presented by Sydney Festival
Creative Team: Concept and dramaturgy by Annette Shun Wah; directed by Darren Yap
Synopsis: Double Delicious invites five Asian-Australian performers to prepare a dish while recounting the family history attached to it. The production is interactive, the audience tastes the food, which makes cooking a material route into migration, instead of a symbolic representation of cultural difference. Stories of migration and departure are connected to recipes that change when locations or households alter. Cooking displays who performs the physical labour of cultural continuity and how practical knowledge is preserved or how it passes between generations. By placing spectators around the process of preparation, the production uses consumption as an interactive mode of storytelling to display how belonging is repeatedly practiced through exchange. Cultural inheritance survives because it can be adapted and changed.
Source: Sydney Festival, production archive: https://2020.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/double-delicious Arts on Tour, production and touring information: https://artsontour.com.au/tours/double-delicious/