Lunch is served, hope is rationed, and silence speaks louder than any monologue.
In a run-down community hall on the edge of town, a woman has been cooking lunch for those in need. A choir is starting up, run by a volunteer who’s looking for a new beginning. A mother is seeking help in her fight to keep her young daughter from being taken into care. An older man sits silently in the corner, the first to arrive, the last to leave. Outside the rain is falling. Alexander Zeldin’s new play is another uncompromising theatrical experience that goes to the heart of our uncertain times.
Acting
Cecilia Noble's Hazel anchors every scene with heartbreaking restraint.
Direction
Zeldin's silences are compositions—every pause earns its weight.
Production
The peeling hall feels lived-in, not designed; decay as character.
Director
Alexander Zeldin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zeldin developed this through workshops with actual food bank users, blurring documentary and fiction.
The title's ironic—faith and charity are institutions that fail these characters, leaving only stubborn hope.
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