Theaterlab is proud to present Freddie Crossley’s durational performance Help Yourselves as part of their upcoming EVERY BODY IN THE HOUSE, Saturday November 15.

In Help Yourselves, UK based artist Freddie Crossley cooks soup to fill a pot in the center of a gallery– it is warm and meant to be shared. With recipes as score, audiences are invited to put out plates and eat: they chop, heat, taste, improvise. A graceful and heart-warming communal experience, Crossley’s work is both a gift of welcome and a stark reminder of who our cultural spaces are for. “If we want to eat, we must share and in that act, in connection, kindness and care against all odds, Help Yourselves is a glimmer of hope,” says Crossley about the work.

Help Yourselves will be presented at Theaterlab as part of their EVERY BODY IN THE HOUSE, a free community program through which Theaterlab opens its doors and invites audience members to sit in on rehearsals, performance explorations, and visual arts installations. A unique invitation into the creative process, the experience is ultimately meant as fodder for collective conversations: as we share this intimate and creative space with our audience, can we think about our future together? About our present?

EVERY BODY IN THE HOUSE will take place Saturday, November 15, from 12pm to 5pm. In addition to Freddie Crossley’s Help Yourselves, audience members will also be able to drop into Orietta Crispino’s open performance What am I Thinking, and Claire Lebowitz King’s I’m All Ears.

An artist, potter, writer and cook, Freddie Crossley’s work bridges the permanent and ephemeral, the things we live with and the things we’ll never see again. Crossley is a graduate of The Royal College of Art, London where he was awarded the prestigious Marit Rausing Scholarship in Ceramics and Glass between 2024 and 2025. Here he developed a choreographic practice through clay and food. Crossley won the Duncan Robinson Prize for visual art in 2012 and 2014 whilst studying literature at the University of Cambridge. He went on to train as a puppeteer, worked in Michelin starred restaurants and took on directorial residencies at large-scale UK theatres where he made and toured live performance events. Crossley has toured a wide landscape of work in the UK, Europe and US with exhibitions in major UK galleries including Saatchi, Hepworth Wakefield and CASS Sculpture Foundation. Help Yourselves is part of a series of food and performance pieces including The Bread Project (2020), which reconnected communities through the baking and gifting of bread. Crossley was recently named a 2025 Ingram prize finalist for his upcoming exhibition, Duet, on view in London Nov 26-30, 2025.