Read our lovely review in Venue Magazine:

This latest outing from Bath’s Kilter Theatre is a wonderfully original piece. It has simultaneous narratives – one past, one future – and asks searching questions about food sustainability. But the show’s best asset is its promenade nature. The audience is led by torchlight from set to set, each created in local allotments; and, as darkness falls, willow bowers and grottoes lot by camp fires and candles become magical spaces. The scenes aren’t presented in chronological order, and much is left to the audience’s imagination. Sometimes it’s strange and funny, and there are at least two love stories.

But the show’s real ambition is to plant the seed of a big idea. Bea (Claire Wyatt) copes with food shortages during 1950s rationing, while Robin (Caroline Garland) faces a time-line from 2031 to 2061 with food riots and epidemics of “protein poisoning” before being relocated to a community village that grows its own food. Their lives seem very different, yet occasionally they deliver the same line together, and their stories are cleverly intertwined by a narrator, slick Radio DJ Peter Local (Olly Langdon).

‘Roots Replanted’ delivers a tough message: how long before the global market crashes and food production has to become more local again? But it’s a delight to experience.

Andy Batten-Foster, Venue Magazine, 9th September 2010.