Scottish Premiere
PW Productions present The Lowry production

A play about growing up. With food.
Based on Nigel Slater’s award-winning autobiography.

Vividly recreating suburban England in the 1960s, Nigel Slater’s childhood is told through the tastes and smells he grew up with. From making the perfect sherry trifle and waging war over cakes through to the playground politics of sweets and the rigid rules of restaurant dining, this is a moving and evocative tale of love, loss and... toast.

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Preview
Tue 7 Aug, 10am

Preview Tickets
Full price £15
Concession £9

Dates
Wed 8 – Sun 26 Aug
(No Mon Performances)

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Tickets
Full price £21.50
Standard concession £16.50
U30s / Students £15
Other concession £9.50

See our Box Office page for full pricing and booking information.

Venue
T1

Running Time
1h 25m approximately

Age Recommendation 
14+

• Jonnie Riordan

  Director

• Libby Watson

  Designer

• Alexandra Faye Braithwaite

  Composer / Sound Designer

• James Thompson

  Food Director

• Zoe Spurr

  Lighting Designer

• Sam Newton, Lizzie Muncey, Marie Lawrence, Mark Fleischmann, Jake Ferretti

  Cast

• Rises like a good soufflé to the top of anything Edinburgh has to offer. ★★★★★

  Mail on Sunday

• A delicate and sometimes surreal coming of age romp which is whisked together using the songs and tastes and smells that deliver us straight back to childhood. ★★★★

  Independent

• As light as a good Victoria sponge, with the tart bite of apricot jam. It is staged by director and choreographer Jonnie Riordan and designer Libby Watson with great charm... ★★★★

  What’s On Stage

• Director Jonnie Riordan strikes a good balance between comedy, sadness and 1970s nostalgia. ★★★★

  The Reviews Hub

• Delightful new stage adaptation... This is a show you can literally taste... Foodies and non-foodies alike are well served. Tuck in! ★★★★

  The Telegraph

• Nigel Slater’s gastronomic memories, brought to the stage complete with tastes and smells, are irresistibly evocative. ★★★★

  Guardian

• Pure joy. ★★★★

  Broadway World

• This is a real 90 minutes of pure nostalgic pleasure, played out brilliantly with a wonderfully pictorial script, accompanied by some descriptive use of sound and music and is nothing short of a feast for all the senses. ★★★★

  The Wee Review

• Heart-breaking and hilarious, it is a very humane production. ★★★★

  Across the Arts

• Nigel Slater’s coming-of-age story is told with warmth, wit and walnut whips. ★★★★

  The Stage

• Food evokes bittersweet memories in this slice of home comfort. ★★★★

  Fest Magazine

• If the way to an audience‘s heart is through the stomach then ‘Toast’ has the fast track.’ / ‘… a sweet, feel good play. ★★★★

  Lothian Life

• On both page and stage, Toast is a vivid episodic memoir, extremely funny, elegiac, brutal and heart-breaking in turn.

  Times Literary Supplement

• A phenomenal piece of British nostalgia which brings more than just a single memory to life on stage. ★★★★★

  Frankly My Dear

• A heartfelt and intimate portrayal of the famous food writer's transition from childhood to adulthood, via the loss of both his parents and falling in love with food.

  British Theatre Guide

• Nigel Slater’s Toast is a piece of buttered nostalgic. ★★★★

  Fest

• A warm, generous hug of a show, full of big-hearted joy but shot through with quiet tragedy too – tenderly evocative and gently nostalgic.★★★★

  The Arts Desk