Found in Translation: Flight of a Legless Bird 無腳鳥的飛行

Flight of a Legless Bird 無腳鳥的飛行 by Ethan Luk

A new play reading in Cantonese and English

Directed by Wilson Wang

Performed at the Pao Arts Center, 99 Albany Street

Pricing : Free, suggested donation $10

Performance Dates:

Friday, June 2, 2023 - 7:00 PM + Post-show conversation

Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 2:00PM

Saturday, June 3, 2023 - 7:00PM + Post-show “Red Heels” Cantopop Dance Party

Flight of a Legless Bird follows the intertwined lives of Robin and Leslie, two queer artists from the 1980s to the 2000s. Robin, a filmmaker in New York's West Village, confronts the reality of a HIV/AIDS diagnosis, while Leslie, an accomplished Cantopop star and actor, grapples with his personal hurdles in bustling Hong Kong. Their worlds collide by chance, uniting them through shared desires as the new millennium approaches. Poetically fusing Cantonese and English, the play reminisces a golden era of pop music, identity, culture, and the transformative power of art in a rapidly changing time.

Flight of a Legless Bird is a finalist at the 2023 National Playwrights Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) and the recipient of The Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award (Distinguished Achievement) at the 2022 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Premiered in July 2021 at Ying Drama Studio’s (鷹劇坊) MINI Theater Festival in Beijing; developed through New York Theater Workshop’s Mind the Gap program with funding from The Sam Hutton Fund and The Sandberg Fund at Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts.

>> About Found in Translation:

Found in Translation is a collaboration between Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston (AATAB), CHUANG Stage, and Pao Arts Center. Established in 2021, Found in Translation celebrates the power and complexities of being multilingual, immigrants, or identifying as Asian American in Greater Boston through theatre.

The Found in Translation Series is supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts' Public Art for Spatial Justice program, with funding from the Barr Foundation.

Contact : [email protected]

Host or Publisher Pao Arts Center