TABLE TALK

“When you enter a dinner party you enter this weird social contract, says Jeff Reichert co-director of Feast of the Epiphany along with Farihah Zaman and Michael Koresky. “How many of us have stormed out of a dinner party? No, you stay through to the end! We all have stories of horrible dinner parties that we’ve attended, and suffered through to the bitter end, after hours and hours. It’s a space where anything can happen because we are all bound around the table for the length of the meal.”

is a meal of two halves. The first is a slightly theatrical fictional depiction of Abby (Nikki Calonge) preparing then hosting a dinner party in her Brooklyn apartment in the hope of soothing a bereaved guest. The second is pure documentary, switching location to Roxbury Farm where workers harvest fruit and vegetables, chat in the sun and, finally, host a communal picnic to celebrate the farm’s birthday. The only link