It’s less than a week away from the World Premiere of HOT POT a tender new play about four university friends reuniting at a hot pot restaurant in London after the COVID pandemic.  The play draws on the lived experiences of East Asian perspectives and explores gay identity with honesty and nuance against a cultural backdrop that can be hostile or indifferent.  It begins as easy laughter and the retelling of old misadventures. As they catch up, the meeting slowly settles into a more searching conversation. Between shared plates of food and the simmering broth, layers of facade peel away to reveal how time has rerouted the friends in many ways. Hot Pot is a play that honours the complexity of friendship, identity and survival.

The ordinary act of sharing a meal becomes this act of reckoning, questioning whether belonging demands conformity or can be rebuilt through chosen ties, and whether leaving is always liberation or sometimes another form of loss. The play invites audiences into an intimate single evening that subtly reframes how its characters understand home, love, and the cost of authenticity.