Eva RecachaThe Picnic

Sadler’s Wells co-commission The Picnic is a new full-length work by Eva Recacha which presents a group of young people enjoying themselves in a surreal blend of parading, celebrating, indulging and co-operating activities, as they emerge from a dreamlike picnic scenario. The work, co-created with a cast of professionals and participants, explores themes of utopia and misogyny and it is inspired by the painting The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, which presents many human figures in a terrestrial paradise, indulging in worldly pleasures.