ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS
ABOUT THE SHOW
ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS is devised by the four BLINK performer-directors who love food. If they’re not eating, they’re talking about it, dreaming about it, and now…dancing, rapping and rhyming about it.
Take a seat at their table as the cast spill the tea on their own memories, food stories and relationship to eating with plenty of their signature sensory and often bizarre tangents…Good Food Gospel anyone?
As their journey progresses they explore the thin line between the hilarity and tragedy of overeating and find themselves deep diving into the culinary conundrum surrounding the exact events of Elvis, The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, at the end of his life.
ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS has a non-linear narrative; it’s semi-improvised form creates an exhilarating ‘edge of your seat’ experience for audience and cast alike.
CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM
Set and Costume Designer
Hazel McIntosh
Initial Design
Kat Heath
Lighting Designer
Carly Altberg
Sound Designers
Mat Hawkins
Alastair McNeill
Story Consultant
Polar Bear
Dramatherapist
Nikkita Da’Silva
Stage and communications manager
Zoe Dowler
Access and Inclusion Manager
Siobhán Wedgeworth
Performers & Co-Directors
Rachel Gildea
Vicki Hawkins
Francis Majekodunmi
Delson Weekes
BSL Interpreter
Rachel Jones (Pegasus Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Attenborough Arts Centre)
Greg Colquhoun (Summerhall, Déda, National Youth Theatre)
Understudies
Laura Day
Abdul Sabir
Dramaturgy
Catherine Horton
Sue Mayo
Deborah Minà
Directors’ Assistant
Laura Day
PAST TOUR DATES
25th - 26th May, 2023
Battersea Arts Centre, London
13th May, 2023
Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
6th July, 2023
Kala Sangam, Bradford
3rd June, 2023
Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester
Supported by The Eclipse Award. The Eclipse Award presented by Eclipse Theatre Company and Summerhall.
2nd - 13th August, 2023
Red Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh
10th November, 2023
Déda Theatre, Derby
13th October, 2023
FOODAHOLIX at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, London
13th November, 2023
National Youth Theatre, London
WHAT AUDIENCES THOUGHT
“I thought it was just joyous - absolutely joyous and gorgeous. Really moving as well”
Photos by Roswitha Chesher, taken at the ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS Performance at Battersea Arts Centre
“I’m so pleased to see something which celebrates food and taste and enjoyment and comfort of food, and isn’t saying ‘what’s bad about this’ and what might be wrong with it, but really letting us into this very sensory experience.”
TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS
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This training will support your venue to look at aspects of the visitor experience to ensure they are accessible and welcoming to people with learning disabilities and other neurodiverse needs.
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A show themed workshop using light-hearted activities to explore our individual food stories. Tailored to each group, but particularly targeted at adults with learning disabilities, PMLD or autism.
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BLINK run popular CPD training in making performing arts workshops accessible and meaningful to people with LD/PMLD/Autism. Run by a neurodiverse team of two trainers, this training supports facilitators, practitioners and creative learning departments to increase access for people with LD in their participatory programmes.
To find out more about any of these workshops and get a quote, get in touch.