Secret Ingredients is a theatre project that uses cake to explore the intricacies of human relationships.
Leading up to the performance, participants are invited to consider messages that they find too difficult to express directly to someone in their life, and submit them via an online form. These messages are translated into beautiful, subversive, and delicious cakes, which are delivered to the intended recipients as an edible form of communication. The project will culminate in a live performance and cake tasting, inspired by the cakes and the stories behind them.
Secret Ingredients takes a playful and intentionally inefficient approach to the challenges of honest communication and provides an intimate window into the quirks, nuances, joy and heartache of real relationships.
Currently in development through Theatre Replacement’s COLLIDER residency
Work-in-progress showing at HOLD ON LET GO 2024
Full presentation at HOLD ON LET GO 2025
Photos of work-in-progress showing by Flory Huang