Over bubbling broth and shared plates, their laughter peels back memories of simpler days, first love and naïve ideals. Conversation soon turns to the quiet divergences that time has carved: careers chosen and abandoned, families expected and resisted, compromises made for security and compromises refused in the name of being true.
Hot Pot is a tender examination of friendship and the small betrayals of adulthood. It traces the heartache of lost love, the friction between dreams and pragmatism, and the work it takes to remain authentic when the world insists otherwise.
Warm, inquisitive and rooted in East Asian perspectives, Hot Pot serves up a single night of conversation that explores gay identity with honesty and nuance, questioning what it means to belong to a place, society, partner, and one’s true self amidst a queer-unfriendly environment.
Accessibility
Hot Pot includes a pre-show Audio Described Introduction for blind and visually impaired audience members. Delivered via headset before the performance begins, this recorded introduction provides key information about the production, including the setting, characters and visual elements, helping audiences to fully engage with the performance without live audio description.
Hot Pot is a Captioned Performance, providing greater accessibility for D/deaf, deafened and hard of hearing audience members. Captions display the spoken dialogue, song lyrics, sound effects and off-stage sounds in real time on a screen positioned on or beside the stage.