Community arts centre, The Bread Factory, begins rehearsals for a theatre performance of the ancient Greek play Hecuba. But the real theatrics are outside where the town is being invaded by strange tourists and mysterious tech start-up workers. Patrick Wang’s ambitious two-part drama comes to a close in this deeply empathetic love letter to close-knit cultural communities.

Reviews

‘There’s nothing else out there like Patrick Wang’s two-part, four-hour labour of love, A Bread Factory, and that’s wholly a good thing.’
Robert Abele, The Wrap

‘Patrick Wang’s A Bread Factory has an immense cast, a deliberate pace and thematic ambition to spare — but it also has a ground-level, plain-spoken modesty that renders it hypnotic.’
Bilge Ebiri, The New York Times