bread/blood

An immersive solo live performance piece / participatory challah-baking class. Cecelia invites the audience into how she has woven her religious and cultural identities into a cohesive whole, using the seemingly contradictory “ingredients” of her background. As participants learn to bake her challah, they are challenged to explore and question their own secret ingredients.
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bread/blood

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  • Elizabeth A. M. Keel:
    17 Aug. 2021
    Bread and stories? Don’t tempt me with a good time! This piece showcases the author's love of the kitchen as a place of theatre, storytelling, and community. I love the ongoing ripple effect of the interactions as well, as participants will go home with dough and family still on their minds.
  • David Valdes:
    20 Jun. 2017
    Cecilia Raker demonstrates what makes theatre truly a distinct form here: what takes place in this fictive memoir-meets-baking class could only happen live in a theatrical space. Using the bread-making process as both metaphor and practice, she muses beautifully and with increasing intensity on identity, and the rare space in which she is "not being asked to give up any of myself for the other parts of myself."

Development History

  • Workshop
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    Nomad Bakery, Derry NH
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    2016