Geography: Asia > Eastern Asia > Taiwan
Year: 2025
Produced by: Sun Son Theatre; presented by Taipei Performing Arts Center as part of Taipei Children’s Arts Festival
Creative Team: Created and performed by Chang Wei-Loy and Chen Zi-Yin; object and visual creation by Chang Wei-Loy; music by Chen Zi-Yin
Synopsis: Community-Bird Migrants uses images of migratory birds to consider the lives of people who move to Taiwan for work or settlement. The production presents a fable of human migration and departure as attempts to make a new home are understood through the migratory patterns of birds. Inspired by real news stories and poems from Rabindranath Tagore’s Stray Birds, puppetry and shadow work allow movement between territories to remain visible without reducing the migrant experience to a direct documentary testimony. The production is particularly useful for thinking about how migration is introduced to younger audiences. With the use of birds, the production asks what hoopers when people build relationships in a place reached through shared movement.
Source: Taipei Performing Arts Center, festival production page: https://tpac.org.taipei/en/festival-tcaf/2025/event/1211 Sun Son Theatre, official production page: https://www.sunsontheatre.com/%E7%95%B0%E9%84%89%E9%B3%A5