When seats grow empty at the reunion table, how do we keep its warmth alive?
Step into a timeworn Chinese restaurant, where echoes of past celebrations still linger in the wallpaper and utensils. A performer will move between tables, unfolding generations of reunion dinners through a solo performance.
Savour moments that are both tender and bittersweet: a video call across time zones, an elder quietly reheating soup for one, familiar questions from curious relatives, holiday chatter looping like old tape. Each gesture is a trace of our gently shifting bonds.
As tradition collides with singlehood, declining birthrate, and migration, who hosts the reunion now? Why do we still gather?
You’re invited to this shared table, where warmth might not be a given, but a question we answer together.
Approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes
Performed in Cantonese
For aged 13 and above
Remarks:
In the latter part of the performance, a light meal containing ingredients such as beans, pork, peanuts will be served to each audience member. Attendees requiring a vegetarian option must email their request to miraclelab.macau@gmail.com by 15 September.
Producer: Chan Si Kei
Director and Playwright: Huang Ding-Yun
Performer: Lao Ip Kin
Set, Props and Costume Design: Lio Iek Man
Graphic Design: Cheong Kin Han
Stage Manager: Iu Cheok Kit
Assistant Stage Managers: Wong Keng Chi and Yoyo Hui