How is it possible for an entire play to be set in a slaughterhouse without it turning into a horror show?

The Exchange Rate Collective has gone and done it anyway by reviving their comically yummy 2007 Summerworks hit, Appetite. This time around it has teamed up with Volcano Theatre to illustrate the connection between life, love, and mass food consumption at the dinner table. Appetite’s effervescent and physical presentation sings, dances, and clowns before utilizing animals as a metaphor for our relationship to food and one another.

It’s a non-linear tale featuring a slaughterhouse worker (Linnea Swan) whose here and now crosses the line into fantasy. Enter Adam Lazarus and Claire Calnan to spice things up and Appetite becomes a delectable, mouth-watering theatre experience.

A performer known for many things, with acting not exactly being one of them, Linnea Swan is an accomplished dancer testing out the waters of live theatre as a logical next step on her career path. Much of her work over the past few years has been leading her in this direction the performer values theatre’s narrative archs which she insists is absent from most dance projects.

The Saskatoon native is all smiles to pull up a chair and swap dialogue over Appetite’s themes of solitude and the love that we all seek.