I’ve read few novels as unsparing as Knut Hamsun’s Hunger. Our bakery is home to a small, committed group of bakers, chefs and barristas, and we do our best to promote the work of local artists and entrepreneurs.Hunger, by Knut Hamsun and translated by Sverre Lyngstad But we are also creating a new kind of community space in London. We even serve coffee from a local east-end roaster. Our breads are entirely hand-crafted and baked daily, at sunrise we source our flours from local mills and deliver our goods by bicycle. Everything we bake, make or sell embodies our passion for artisan methods, organic local products and delicious food. Last summer we conducted a youth theatre project called Things That Drive You Crazy! about all the things in life that make us mad, sad and glad, in a former mental hospital in East London and our most recent project, Heaven in Berlin, a play with live rock music about East Germany in the 1980's, was presented in a large industrial space in Battersea.Į5 Bakehouse are bringing the art of sourdough baking to Hackney. We then produced La Turista: Cafe Duende, a piece about the Spanish Civil War, in the Tapas restaurant, Morito, with food, music and dancing woven into the narrative. Our first project was Roundabout, the true story of Macedonian immigrants squatting in a public park, which we staged in the garden of the Bush Theatre. Hobo Theatre was formed in 2012 with the aim of producing work in unusual non-theatre spaces, telling stories with an international perspective about wanderers, adventurers and people lost at the margins. The venue is the E5 Bakehouse, one of the country's leading artisan bakeries. The performance features live music and is concluded with a traditional Scandinavian two-course meal which is included in the ticket price. Is he destined always to return to Hunger? He finds moments of beauty and elation but it seems a life of struggle is never far away. On a picaresque journey through the city he encounters extraordinary characters, conjures ideas for grand philosophical essays and falls in love. As the hero of the story wrestles with this conundrum, his physical weakness heightens his spiritual awareness but also threatens to send him spiraling in to insanity. In order to work, he must have bread to keep body and soul together, but in order to have bread he must make money from his writing. Hobo Theatre and the E5 Bakehouse present:īased on Knut Hamsun's classic modernist novel, Hunger tells the story of a nameless writer, wandering the streets of Christiania in 1890, seeking inspiration for his writing and trying to stave off poverty and hunger.

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