TOAST

TOAST is a mobile part improvised extravaganza of music, stories and bursts of food & drink. It happens around a highly mobile electric Toast Mobile and is a mixture of set pieces and improvising around the audience they meet.

TOAST is Pif-Paf’s ambitious beautiful, growing, communal celebration of food, song, story, dance and fire. It happens on and around our ever-moving mobile kitchen cart and us: 3 cooking, storytelling musicians.

TOAST is a mixture of songs, stories and recipes we have learnt from musicians and cooks from around the world that we have met in our home town and responds to you – the audience – and the stories you are going to tell us. Expect flying pancakes, singing, maybe some dancing, a bit of eating and drinking, laughing and lots of new friends.

Pif-Paf are a highly acclaimed visual and physical theatre company, creating stunning and constantly evolving work from the intimate to the extreme.

Pif-Paf’s work runs from small Bee Revolutions (Bee Cart) to Flight Of Fancy rickshaw rides (Flycycle & Submercycle) , car sized Slugs battling chickens (SEED), giant canvas painting with explosions (Action Painting) cutting-edge tech art (Celestial Sound Cloud) and now TOAST, a community building Pancake and music show.

Cast: Pete Gunson, Adam “Chiv” Charvet, Kate Griffin

Director: Eleanor Hooper

Writers: Pete Gunson and Eleanor Hooper, with the company

Music: The company and original composers current and traditional.

Set design and build: Pete Gunson with Roscoe Blevins and Annie Nelson

Show format: Developed in 2019 by Pete Gunson and Eleanor Hooper with Jack Stoddart and Francesca ‘Chez’ Dunford

Company Administrator/Tour Manager: Marianne Bolton

Special Thanks: Aboud Khawaja, Banar, Sunshine Wong, Pitsmoor Adventure Playground, All at Petre Street Garage and Gamal at Daleel Travel, Sheffield Bakery and Stacey Sampson.

TOAST is supported by Without Walls and commissioned by Wiltshire Creative.

Further supported by Arts Council England and Wild Rumpus. R&D investment from Without Walls Blueprint.