BIRDS IN THE MOON is a traveling chamber opera built into a state-of-the-art shipping container – bringing theatre to the people, specifically setting down the container and performing in locations where theatrical experiences are often sparse or unavailable.
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The storyline for BIRDS IN THE MOON is loosely based on the eccentric theory penned by 17th Century scientist Charles Morton, who hypothesized that birds migrate to the moon. According to Morton, birds migrated every year to the moon where they fed and reproduced. He believed that the majority of birds came back to earth with their offspring, yet the rest of them were simply lost in space. Charles Morton's eccentricity serves the libretto with its main theme, the journey of the migrant – using the bird as a metaphor for a person, and the moon as a metaphor for a promised land or the wealthy countries of the so-called first world.
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