A shared theatrical experience where connections bake, conversations spill, and we become family.
PicoPi Collective
Location: DB55
Dates:
- GENRE: Performance Art, Social Arts
- THEME: Collective work, Connection, Face my truth
- LANGUAGE: English
- Toilet for wheelchair users: yes, Wheelchair accessible: yes
duration of the performance: 1 h
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.
Born from a shared love of food and storytelling, PicoPi Collective brings together scenographers from Syria, Argentina, Greece, and Spain. They focus on non-traditional staging setups, exploring a more involved audience.
Will you take a seat?
*Food included in ticket price. Come hungry!
Biography
PicoPi Collective is: iAra Banchik Almasia, Fatima Habib, Christianna Tsigkou, and Vera Morcillo.
iAra is a scenographer and interdisciplinary designer. Her practice is rooted in creating spaces for intimate, vulnerable, and often taboo conversations.
Fatima is an architect and theatre maker with experience as a freelance designer and cartoonist. She has a background in community work contributing as a trainer, designer, mentor and team leader.
Christianna is an experienced intradisciplinary artist. She has worked as a production designer for films as well as scenographer, director and performer for (unscripted) theatre performances.
Vera is a multidisciplinary designer and scenographer. She has a special fondness for light, rhythms and colors, these being the main ingredients in her works.
The collective formed organically during their time in the Master Scenography program at HKU in Utrecht, when these four international students (from Argentina, Syria, Greece, and Spain) bonded over shared meals, stories, and their artistic research.
As scenographers and makers, they focus on non-traditional theater settings, moving away from the classical separation between auditorium and stage, creating performances where audiences are invited to actively participate and react. Their interest is in making spaces for dialogue and sharing experiences.
