From a work-in-process showing at The Brick’s ?! New Works Festival 2025, also developed with Fresh Ground Pepper at Little Pond Arts Retreat in summer 2024.

Adapted and directed by Annabel Heacock and Valen-Marie Santos.

Carmen emerges to her family’s breakfast table to describe a disturbing dream. Based on the short story by Amparo Dávila, “The Breakfast” merges puppetry and movement to capture a family intoxicated by the mundane and material, unable to see the underlying horrors of their morning coffees and cocktail dresses.

featuring Sam Kebede, Samantha Medina Chachra, Caroline Potter-Shriver, and Jake Regensburg.

Masks created by Annabel Heacock and Valen-Marie Santos.

Carnation puppet created by Leah Levine.

Photos by Lee Rayment.