Shouldham Entertainment Committee putting on live show Notnow Collective’s Pepper and Honey in village hall in collaboration with Creative Arts East

A live show is coming to a village next week with audience participation an integral part of it.

Shouldham Entertainment Committee presents its latest live show, Notnow Collective’s Pepper and Honey, in the village hall on Friday, September 13 at 7.30pm, in collaboration with Creative Arts East.

Pepper and Honey is a one-woman exploration of what makes a place a home and the making and breaking of family traditions, told through the process of making paprenjaci, Croatian traditional pepper biscuits, live during the performance.

The performance tells the story of Ana, who has been on a journey. Croatian-born, she’s arrived in the UK, determined to make it home.

As she focuses on life in this new land, she is haunted by the voice of her grandma calling for her to stay true to her national identity and yearning for Ana to come home.

As Grandma bakes her traditional Croatian pepper biscuits – believed to bring a loved one back home – will this be enough to be reunited with her granddaughter? But what is ‘home’ to Ana now?

Written by a Croatian playwright and performed by a Croatian actor, Pepper and Honey is a poignant, subtle, and timely play about the journey of change, cultural differences, trying not to feel like a foreigner in your adopted country, and the conflict between upholding the traditions of the “old country” and embracing those of the new.

Pepper and Honey is timed to perfection to deliver a perfect Croatian pepper biscuit, baked live with the help of the audience.

It is described as a “wonderful, heartwarming” show that is suitable for anyone who has experienced leaving home, or thinks they might do one day, and promises a great evening of live theatre in a village setting, with a bar selling drinks and snacks and a delicious biscuit bonus.