Admitting that one grain of rice represents one person, Stan's Cafe exposes and juxtaposes mountains of rice to reveal the physical nature of numbers and statistics. For their Swiss premiere, Stan's Cafe chose to depict statistics proper to Switzerland versus the European Union.
60 kilos of rice stand for the population of Berlin, 600 grams for the Vietnamese population of Warsaw and just as much for all of Fribourg's inhabitants. How many grains of rice to personify the annual birthrate of Switzerland? For the deathrate? How large of a pile to show the number of doctors, millionaires or border-crossing workers?
Behind their computers and electronic scales, the members of Stan's Cafe tirelessly count and recount their statistics. They invite each visitor to compare his representative grain of rice to all the ones that are not him.
Of all the People in All the World is the British company's most ambitious project. The original version, symbolizing the world's population, was produced for the first time in Stuttgart, in 2005, with 104 tons of rice.

Artistic direction: James Yarker - Performers: Christine Dugrenier, Nicholas Walker, Jack Trow, Benny Semp, Heather Burton & Louisa Pearson. With the support of the British Council.