Dinner These Days

Invited to dinner today are Claudette, Tyrell, Dorce, and Heidi Saint-Joseph. It’s been years since the four siblings have spoken together in the same room, and it’s been five years since Dorce took his secrets and the family dog and walked away from them all. Now, as Heidi, the youngest, readies to graduate college, they gather to break bread and silence, tapping into the fury and feelings of a decade untouched.

Dinner These Days is the story of a desperate, estranged family on the precipice of acknowledging changes. It is also an ode, to family, to siblings, and to Haitian identity and community in the diaspora. Written with salt, pepper, soul, and affection for Haitian cuisine, this play tells the story of the Saint-Josephs and the processes of becoming that make and unmake its next generations.