‘Food', a play written by Steve Rodgers and starring Kate Box, Emma Jackson and Fayssal Bazzi, is a warm, delicious and tantalising experience. Food itself is integral to the play and to the events in the play with the audience invited to partake of the food (people in the audience were literally eating bread, soup and drinking wine).

The play is set in a small family takeaway shop, perched on the roadside of the great Australian highway in the late '70s/ early '80s. Based around the sisters Nancy (Jackson) and Elma (Box), who are like chalk and cheese, the play progresses and the underlying current of tension and resentment between them flows to the surface. Nancy has been away for 15 years — she escaped after a traumatic event and turned to travel and sex — whereas Elma stayed on at home and became focussed on food and order.

Everything changes when they take on Hakan, a sexy Turkish traveller, as a kitchen hand. Like a cat among the pigeons, Hakan stirs up emotions and the sisters are tested — can the girls forgive, forget and forge a new bond?

The mix of dancing, acting, cooking and cleaning was a delight and beautifully showcased the talented cast. The stage design was perfect with the backdrop of large pots dotted on the back wall simple yet dazzlingly effective. More pots are used to great effect as stools, steps, cooking utensils, and to catch the water leaking from the ceiling. The play has some laugh-out-loud moments which provided relief from the tension and heartache as layers of past hurts are slowly exposed and finally allowed to heal. Don't miss this — 'Food' is a nourishing night of theatre.

'Food' is playing a limited season at La Boite until April 27.