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Taking stock: a cooking show about soup, suicide and strangers' kindness by Lyn Gardner

As they chop veg, the audience bond over stories of life and death in Leo Burtin's interactive piece The Midnight Soup, a tribute to his late grandmotherLeo Burtin calls his theatre show The Midnight Soup an "edible memorial" to his grandmother, Josette. When Josette died in 2012, his family called to give him the news. Burtin initially assumed that her death had resulted from a fall. But he found out she had killed …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM on October 12, 2015

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