ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS
2023 Spring/Summer Tour
This page is about our ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS 2023 Spring/Summer Tour. For information about the 2025 encore performance at Liberty Festival, head back to the main page.
ABOUT THE SHOW
ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS is devised by the four BLINK performer-directors who love food. If they’re not eating, they’re talking about it, dreaming about it, and now…dancing, rapping and rhyming about it.
Take a seat at their table as the cast spill the tea on their own memories, food stories and relationship to eating with plenty of their signature sensory and often bizarre tangents…Good Food Gospel anyone?
As their journey progresses, they explore the thin line between the hilarity and tragedy of overeating and find themselves deep diving into the culinary conundrum surrounding the exact events of Elvis, The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, at the end of his life.
ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS has a non-linear narrative; it’s semi-improvised form creates an exhilarating ‘edge of your seat’ experience for audience and cast alike.
During the 2023 tour, ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS was enjoyed by nearly 700 audience members, at seven different venues in six cities. We also shared extracts of the show as part of FOODAHOLIX at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, and Tourettehero’s Biscuit Land Cabaret.
CREATIVE AND PRODUCTION TEAM
Cast
| Performers & Co-Directors | Rachel Gildea, Vicki Hawkins, Francis Majekodumni, Delson Weekes |
| BSL Interpreters | Rachel Jones (Pegasus Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Attenborough Arts Centre), Greg Colquhoun (Summerhall, Déda, National Youth Theatre) |
| Understudies | Laura Day, Abdul Sabir |
Creatives
| Dramaturgy | Catherine Horton, Sue Mayo, Deborah Minà |
| Directors' Assistant | Laura Day |
| Set and Costume Designer | Hazel McIntosh |
| Initial Design | Kat Heath |
| Lighting Designer | Carly Altberg |
| Sound Designer | Mat Hawkins, Alastair McNeill |
| Story Consultant | Polar Bear |
| Dramatherapist | Nikkia Da'Silva |
Production Team
| Artistic Support Workers | Connie Chinn, Georgia Clark, Linden Sloan, Maeve O'Brien |
| Stage and Communications Manager | Zoe Dowler |
| Access and Inclusion Manager | Siobhán Wedgeworth |
PAST PERFORMANCES
| 13th May, 2023 | Pegasus Theatre, Oxford |
| 25th - 26th May, 2023 | Battersea Arts Centre, London |
| 3rd June, 2023 | Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester |
| 6th July, 2023 | Kala Sangam, Bradford |
| 2nd - 13th August, 2023 | Red Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh |
| 13th October, 2023 | FOODAHOLIX at Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, London |
| 10th November, 2023 | Déda Theatre, Derby |
| 13th November, 2023 | National Youth Theatre, London |
| 8th September, 2024 | Extract as part of Touretteshero's Biscuit Land Cabaret, Southbank Centre, London |
ELVIS DIED OF BURGERS is supported using public funding by Arts Council England, The Eclipse Award (Eclipse Theatre Company and Summerhall), and Welcome to Wandsworth, with additional in-kind support from National Youth Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre and Redbridge Drama Centre.