The Table is a participatory theater performance produced by Ping Chong and Company, conceived by Lead Artist and PCC Artistic Leader Mei Ann Teo and created with collaborators Tomi Tsunoda and Erika Chong Shuch. The Table subversively moves attendees between witnessing and interacting in a collective investigation of insatiability. In this era of accelerating environmental catastrophes, it lays bare our collective complicity in consumption culture, while unearthing the complex roots of hunger, need, and craving. The Table lives at the intersection of performance and community: a replicable model of engagement that responds and adapts to each locality’s history and context, culminating in a communal meal. Each iteration is created through a process that invites local artists and organizations into the investigation. The Table is an act of integrative art-making, of active listening, our consumables, our waste, and ourselves, to grapple with our irrevocable dependency on each other.
