Every story has two sides. Or three. Or six.
Breadcrumbs is an interactive theatre piece, offering the audience the option to hear all sides of the story.
As everyone involved recounts their version of events, it is up to the audience to decide who they’re going to believe.
Nobody really knows the truth except the people who were there and they’re telling different stories. Will anyone be able to decipher what really happened?
An interactive performance piece, focusing on the idea that every story has a dozen sides.
The story itself is a retelling of the fairytale of Hansel & Gretel
The audience is never directly confronted with this fact, the hints are there if they are capable of connecting them.
In the same manner, everything is dependent upon the audience members themselves. The performance features five characters placed around a house, each occupying their own space and telling their own side of the story.
It is entirely up to the audience, what order they want to listen to the stories, which one they will believe more or less, even if they will visit and listen to all the characters.
As every character remembers the events that took place differently and every one of them has their own agenda, it is up to the audience to try and piece together what really happened so no two audience members will have the same experience viewing the play nor will they leave with the same story.
The piece was staged at Die Bäckerei - Kulturbackstube, a cultural organisation functioning in an old, abandoned bakery so the set design utilised the existing structure as much as possible.
The characters where physically connected with a red string running on the ground, but without any obvious chronological order. They were also connected by a common auditory scenery playing throughout the entire house.
Whereas the bowls of candy placed all around the space served both as a clue for the audience and a way to engage that most elusive sense, when it comes to immersive theatre; taste.
This way, the audience were themselves sucked into the story, as they walked around and listened to the story of an old lady luring children with candy while they themselves were eating candy, they inadvertently got caught in the same trap.