Fat Bird is a collective of professional and non-professional performers dedicated to expanding theatrical possibilities in Shenzhen. To that end, we collaborate with architects, visual artists, and poets, local and international. Our projects include experimental workshops, guerilla performances, movement pieces, and more traditional pieces staged in a theatre. For more information, please visit our webpage at: http://mary.ann.odonnell.googlepages.com/fatbird.
This was performance resulted from a workshop that explored how scientific problems could inspire artistic creativity. ;
Fat Bird premiered 519 on Apr 7, 2010 at the New Black Box Theater, Shenzhen University. The show explores the increasingly viral and abstract life of a scholar who can't come to terms with his shame.
Old Moon (HE Lemiao) and Guan Yin (Yang Qian) live only as long as devotees offer incense. However, modern Chinese people no longer believe in them. Consequently, Old Moon and Guan Yin decide to resurrect some traditional Chinese people and mate them with the Moderns. These new people will both follow tradition and be able to live in the new world. What follows is a comedic series of attempts to bring tradition and modernity together.