Drama Learn from Pigeons by ZHANG Hui

Venue: National Centre for the Performing Arts - Multi-functional Theatre

Dates: February 17-19, 2017

About

Love comedy Learn from Pigeons is adapted from award-winning work of the Broadway "Tony Awards".

Credits

Producer: WANG Feng

Stage Director / Adapter: ZHANG Hui

Set Designer: LU Ning

Lighting & Style Designer: XU Yin

SynopsisIn the 1970s, a blind young man, who is under long-term care from his mother, wants to escape the shackles of the family, and decides to leave his family and trek in the outside world. At that time, under the pursuit of free life, the young man encounters his neighbour, a precocious, outgoing and cheerful girl with lack of confidence in love. As they spend more time with each other, both of them quickly fall in love. Young man's personality is liberated. However, the contradictions and conflicts between the two generations are also exposed under the family control and the pursuit of freedom.

Until the blind man's mother visit, the girl's love for the man and mother's doting for the son are simultaneously challenged...[source:National Centre for the Performing Arts]