A hilarious and powerful one-man show exploring fatherhood, identity, trauma, and joy.
David’s father Marcello was an Italian Jew imprisoned as a child in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. He brought lifelong wonder, madness, joy, and pain to those around him.
The show delves into shifting pasts and parallel presents, using photos, clips from Marcello’s Holocaust testimony, anecdotes of soldiers, gangsters, and casinos…
Pieces of a Man explores questions of identity, persecution, migration and liberation. Versions of masculinity are contrasted, with the stories of father and son spanning violent upheaval and tremendous social change.
Pieces of a Man is a story of unresolved parental trauma that touches diverse communities, leaving spectators a little bit transformed.