Ice Cream for Breakfast is a play about Diego, an ordinary New Yorker in his early 30s whose inner life is split between two arguing voices in his head: Hugo, the anxious rationalist, and Sid, the raw impulsive id.
As Diego grinds through subway commutes, corporate jargon, and the dopamine-loop of dating apps, a promising first date with Phoebe briefly feels like a lifeline — until he’s suddenly laid off and then ghosted, sending him spiraling into paranoia, bingeing, and a brutal reckoning with what he actually wants.
Just as he decides to finally choose life over fantasy — saying yes to a new career lead, a solo trip to see the pyramids, and a real-world connection with Eva, a bartender he meets off-app—the city delivers a darkly comic gut-punch: the same random subway violence that haunted his imagination becomes real, flipping his “ice cream for breakfast” freedom into a sharp meditation on modern isolation, instability, and the urgency of living before it all melts.