Appetite

Thu.-Sun., April 30-May 3, $20, Wolf Building, 340 N. 12th St., 800-838-3006, volcanousa.org/productions.html.

by Lauren F. Friedman

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Published: Apr 28, 2009

dance/theater

Sarah Sanford is well-known in Philly theater circles for her work with Pig Iron, but she's been cheating on us — with Toronto. "There [I] feel free to fail grandly if I need to," says Sanford, whose directorial debut, Appetite, won her a Best Emerging Director award at Toronto's SummerWorks Festival in 2007. Two years later, the artist feels ready to bring Appetite's multidisciplinary exploration of food, love and sex to her hometown. "Eating as a really intimate and personal act has always been really interesting to me," she says. After a great deal of improvisation, the show's main focus coalesced around a love triangle, a slaughterhouse and an eating competition. Is there a plot? "It's more of an emotional journey," Sanford says. "There is a narrative, but we've done a lot to obscure it."

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