Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water For Chocolate) is a mid-scale production which toured to theatres in the UK for the first time in October and November 2006.

This gorgeous, sexy tale is set in revolutionary Mexico in 1910.  Tita, a young woman forced to watch her sister marry the man she loves, cooks to quench her aching heart.  Her food stirs all who taste it, affecting them deeply and transporting them into a captivating world of magical realism.

This is the UK’s first stage adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s worldwide bestseller, Like Water for Chocolate.  With an international cast, vibrant text and a haunting score, including live music, TSF brings its flair for visual storytelling to this sensual celebration of Latin American culture.

The Creative Team
The original novel is by Laura Esquivel, one of Mexico’s most celebrated writers and is being adapted by Linda McLean (Paines Plough, Traverse Theatre, Derby Playhouse). The director is John Cobb, the Joint Artistic Director of TSF who has also worked with Robert Lepage, the National Theatre, Northern Stage, Benchtours Theatre Company and Julia Ritter Dance Company. Set and costume design is by Neil Murray, Associate Director and Head of Design at Northern Stage who has also worked with West Yorkshire Playhouse, Kneehigh, Teatro Romeo and MC Bobigny. The music is being composed by Iain Johnstone, writer, director and composer with Wee Stories who has also worked with Told By An Idiot and Northern Stage.

“bursting with spirit and grandeur” 
Newcastle Journal

“this Spanish language staging burns with a passion that threatens to set fire to the stage” 
The Stage

“a mesmerizing production” 
The Glasgow Herald

“This company has proven that language is not the key to understanding - emotion,
empathy and laughter"
Theatre In Wales