Five Star Review of Zack's Vegetarian Curry
No man is an island, yet there was a sense of community in the group hat gathered around the ‘island’ in the kitchen in order to experience Zack’s Vegetarian Curry.
A one-man show requires a strong centrepiece, and this evening certainly delivered one. An impressive array of metatheatrical techniques were used in the making of this curry, including sweet potatoes that self-consciously represented the dialogical synthesis of artistic integrity and consumerism.
Theatrical accessibility is an ongoing concern of contemporary society, but this curry tackled exclusionary elitism by having something for everyone. With top notes of coconut, pesto, and je ne sais quoi; this melee, this melange of vetalia certainly held its own per se.
Though the English language lacks the adjectival capacity necessary to encompass this feat of culinary greatness, I can only ask you, the reader to choose (#receptiontheory #breakingthefourthwall): voluptuous, serendipitous, inimicable, omnipotent, infallible, ostentatious…the list goes on.
Sitting in the kitchen, we felt that we had encountered something that escaped the confines of the tangible world, and soared into the World of Forms beyond; this was no shadow on the wall, but a Beatific Vision, transferring the diners into a state of eudaimonaic transcendence.
This was the climax of a delicately-flavoured, saucy evening. To affirm the famous closing lines of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’; “yes I said yes I will yes.”
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Georgina Wilson and Emily Brearley-Bayliss are the 2014 Editors of Ed Fringe Review and are fabulous people. They study English at Balliol College, Oxford and the University of Durham respectively.