Performance part of PicoPi Collective iAra Banchik Almasia, Fatima Habib, Christianna Tsigkou, and Vera Morcillo.
Can we have opposing truths and still manage to sit around the same table, share a meal, like a family would?
In Breaking Bread, you’re not just an audience member. You’re a guest. Set in the warmth and chaos of a family gathering, the performance unfolds in real time with impromptu conversations, scripted beats, and a dash of unpredictability. Seated among the performers, you’ll share food and stories.
The performance explores how we relate to each other, across cultural, gendered and generational divides.
There are no heroes, no arcs, just the beautifully tender, and tense moments we recognize from sitting too long at a crowded dinner table.
Breaking Bread is an interactive performance exploring belonging, family rituals, and shared memory.
Around a long dinner table, audience members are seated together with performers. The premise is that this is a family gathering where the main family members are invited to celebrate a family event and the audiences are guests at this event. The performance is fully improvised. Through the research and rehearsal phase, our collective, together with the actors, created an archive of stories, characters, and rituals that happen in family and friend gatherings.
The actors are given their characters, relations to each other, and the reason for gathering only one hour before each show. The idea is that what matters is not the exact words spoken around the table, but the gestures, ways of interacting, and the ways we treat each other across cultural, gendered, and generational divides.
The audience is brought on this journey of a beautifully chaotic family gathering through engagement in conversation and interactions with the cast and with each other. The show is built around a set of structured beats and food moments that guide the narrative and dramaturgy.
