Endless Stew

Two cooks land in a square with a remarkable legacy: a stew that has been simmering continuously for a hundred years. Every time the stew gets eaten, new ingredients are added. You can taste all the food that has been considered surplus over the course of the century in this stew.

Welcome to Endless Stew: an anti-capitalist ritual centred on a talking pressure cooker. In exchange for a bit of leftovers from your fridge, you, the audience, are invited to join us around this collective stew.

You’ll soon realise that cooking together is presented here as a form of political action. How do we bring all the ingredients and stories we’ve brought with us together? Will bigger appetites end up getting more than smaller ones? Or shall we let that depend on how much everyone brings? Together, you’ll set out to find a democratic recipe for the future: which ingredients from the past will you leave behind, what absolutely must be kept, and which new flavours should be added?

What begins as a gathering around a cooking pot, where personal memories and ingredients are shared, unfolds into a playful, interactive reflection on food waste, the way we produce and consume food, and the world in which we want to live. Endless Stew brings together flavours and people. Unlike at a potluck, the food brought along is not merely shared; instead, something new is created together: a collective stew, from which everyone is served a plate at the end of the performance. A circular ritual that reminds us that something is not finite if you not only take but also give.