Duration: 45 min.
Bird Song is performed with shadow characters silhouetted against a rear-projection video screen with singers, gamelan instruments, and shakuhachi. The story, by Adam Novy, depicts a fictional kingdom fighting a far off war and beset by an invasion of birds. As the people whisper that the birds are the souls of the dead returning from the war, Esmerelda, with the help of the sniveling bureaucrat The Plenipotentiary, deposes her brother Benny to take over as leader of the country. They try to enlist the help of a mute singer who can control the birds with her haunting song--until they come home to roost...