For many, Christmas is synonymous with family. A time of unity, harmony and love. In Carne [Flesh], it is also synonymous with bitterness, resentment and frustration. In a house like so many others, a family gathers around the table on Christmas Eve. Absent are one deceased sister and the bedridden mother in the room next door. The characters share dinner, along with “debts, traumas and slipped discs”. The conversations and silences that ensue as the evening advances cruelly highlight the communicative collapse and unsolvable conflicts between the various family members. Written within the frame of the École des Maîtres theatre training project (2021 edition), Carne is an exercise on the insufficiencies of language. “Still, while on the one hand language is not enough, on the other it is more than enough: even if it fails constantly, it also creates constantly.” Words and language are the building materials Raquel S. employs to write and direct this show.