Cafeteria Formosa
UT Live Design
ABOUT THE PROJECT
An immersive, site-specific performance wherein audience members and performers explore the nuances, complexities, and delights of individual identity in an engaging, all-you-can eat food cart stop called Cafeteria Formosa. Your imagination is the only limit - each and every dish sparks a unique story for the eater.
The audience experience begins on a street corner. While walking down a busy city street, a woman asks herself “Where am I going?” Wherever she walks on her journey, the audience follows. In a mysterious answer to her question Cafeteria Formosa materializes. The woman and the audience are transported to a magical space where food means much more than simple physical nourishment--it is deeply personal, infused with the comedy and ordinary sadness of life in all its wonder. Together we embark on a journey of discovery with the customers and staff of Cafeteria Formosa, where the menu includes everything from GRANDMA’S FRIDGE to RAIN. A delicious storytelling journey that asks the audience and the performers alike, “have you eaten yet?”
WORK AND PROCESS SAMPLES
Every audience member received this menu. The menu served as both a program, and a set of prompts to create the dishes ordered by audience members.
Meet the Team
Artistic Director: Hsiao-Wei Chen
Original Text: Lo-Yao Huang
Director & Co-Creator: Kristen Osborn
Performers and Co-creators: Rachel Aston Warren, Ashley Diaz, Henry Kelly, Esther Park, Ricky Pratchett, Simon Salinas Jr., Nathan Tran
Production Manager: Matthew Schulz
Stage Manager: Kat Clark
Scenic & Costume Designer: Hsiao-Wei Chen
Lighting Designer: Ari Jamieson
Sound Designer: Eliot Fisher
Logo Designer: Court Rogers
Costume Designer Assistant: Jadzia Padilla