David Labi is an acclaimed performer, speaker, and facilitator. He explores issues like trauma, identity, and family through hilarious and transformative storytelling.
David’s unforgettable show Pieces of a Man:
Continues to tour Europe & North America
Receives incredible reponses
Combines with storytelling workshops on trauma and identity
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Pieces of a Man is a solo theatre show blending powerful emotional storytelling and comedy to explore intergenerational trauma, masculinity, and identity.
Centred on the story of David’s father, a child survivor of the Holocaust, the piece asks what we inherit from our parents, and whether we can ever truly break those patterns.
Combining humour with vulnerability, the show creates a space where audiences can both laugh and confront deeply personal themes. It is accompanied by a workshop led by David, “Exploring Parental Legacies”.
PIECES OF A MAN
Globetrotting Londoner David is having a midlife crisis. He longs to grow up, but his dad keeps getting in the way. And he’s been dead for 20 years.
David’s father Marcello was a Libyan-Italian Jew who survived the Nazi concentration camps as a child. Larger-than-life, he lived through business success and failure, casinos and shady deals, an unexplained bomb, and a terrifying accident – hauling his loved ones along on his wild rollercoaster of life.
In Pieces of a Man, David brings us on his journey to make peace with his father. Hilarious and moving, this universal story shows how we can approach the complex legacies of our parents with creativity and joy.
UPCOMING DATES
La Maison de la Culture Arlon, Belgium, Apr 7, 2026
The Bridge Theatre Brussels, Apr 11, 2026
Holocaust Museum Los Angeles, Jun 28, 2026
Click here to read a review of Pieces of a Man
About the Artist
Born in London, David Labi was a dedicated youth activist, learning as a teenager how to deliver immersive experiences for thousands. He studied English Literature at Cambridge University, and in his mid-20s left the UK to live in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Berlin, and now Brussels. His lifelong red thread has been STORYTELLING.
David has edited top city magazines and published guides and literary translations. He’s been a TV news scriptwriter, and created globally broadcast documentary, as well as shorts and experimental film. And as a brand copywriter he’s written taglines, concepts, and copy for leading global brands.
In 2017 he founded ethical storytelling agency Good Point, which he continues to run from Brussels. His clients include WWF, British Council, Oxfam, Greenpeace, and more. For UNHCR he recently wrote and produced a graphic novel about refugees now distributed in schools worldwide.
David took to the stage as a comic performer in 2021, as a way to process the complex legacy of his late father. He has shown Pieces of a Man all over Europe and continues to tour – get in touch to book the show. David is currently developing his next piece, also about fatherhood.
UPCOMING DATES
La Maison de la Culture Arlon, Belgium, Apr 7, 2026
The Bridge Theatre Brussels, Apr 11, 2026
Holocaust Museum Los Angeles, Jun 28, 2026
SOME PAST PERFORMANCES
CC Sint-Niklas, Belgium, Mar 25, 2026
NT Gent, Ghent, Belgium – Mar 11-12, 2026
CC Casino Koksijde, Belgium – Jan 20, 2026
The Bridge Theatre, Brussels, Belgium – Nov 22, 2025
Leah Posluns Theatre, Toronto, Canada – May 22, 2025
Zekelman Holocaust Center, Michigan, USA – May 18, 2025
Lancaster Arts, UK – Feb 28, 2025
GC de Kluize, Oosterzele – Jan 31, 2025
Meneer Otis, Nijmegen, NL – Dec 14, 2024
Bouche à Oreille, Brussels – Nov 15, 2024
Theater Aan Zee, Ostend – Aug 1-3, 2024
Charing Cross Theatre, London – Jun 17, 2024
Volksbühne Berlin, May 15, 2024 & Oct 18, 2023
KC Nona, Mechelen – Apr 6, 2024
JW3, London – 2-3 Apr, 2024
Intl. Storytelling Festival, Amsterdam – 4 Nov, 2023
Mezrab, Amsterdam – Jun 2023
Pianofabriek, Brussels – Apr 2023
Camden People’s Theatre, London – Sep 2022
Goldsmiths University George Wood Theatre, London – Jul 2022
Hectolitre, Brussels – Sep 2021
SOME IMAGES FROM PAST PERFORMANCES BELOW!
PRESS ABOUT PIECES OF A MAN
Detroit PBS – I was on TV in Detroit with my show and workshop
Review of Pieces of a Man by Wouter Hillaert (DUTCH – English translation here)
I was on Belgian TV! See a short video about the show and workshop on BRUZZ TV
Listen to an interview with me on Hectolitre FM
Two articles I wrote in the Brussels Times (BE) about Pieces of a Man (here and here)
An article I wrote in the Jewish Chronicle (UK) about Pieces of a Man