Food Bank As It Is

Sufra NW London presents: Food Bank As It Is by Tara Osman
“hard hitting…harrowing”
Evening Standard

“an ambitious, socially-conscious production”
“emotionally-packed piece of true, human horror”
Shout Out UK

“A profound example of art meeting politics”
The Canary

How does it feel to go hungry for days, yet be surrounded by plenty? What is it like to rely on a food bank to feed yourself and your family?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25, states that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family”. Yet in the UK, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are going hungry and cold.

“Food Bank As It Is” is a hard-hitting drama that provides a window into the world of food poverty in the UK for those who want to look.

Documented by a food bank worker who is incensed by what she has seen, these are dramatised real stories from one real food bank.

Since spring 2017, Foodbank As It Is has played to many hundreds of people in venues in London, Oxford and Bangor, and Scotland to critical acclaim.

Food poverty in the UK is a national disgrace. Let’s show it for what it is.

This performance has been commissioned by Sufra NW London, a food bank and community kitchen in Brent. It will include a panel discussion, exhibition and refreshments.