Arson. Affairs. Incest. Murder... are only the beginning of problems for the Whistler siblings. Mora’s gotta find her birth mother, Neel’s gotta find himself, and Illy’s gotta keep her piece of the sky... but the birds have other plans. Julia Izumi’s Regretfully, So the Birds Are is a wild, farcical tragedy that gleefully flips the human quest for self-discovery on its head.
Playwrights Horizons and WP Theater present this world premiere directed by Jenny Koons. Izumi’s farcical play reshapes the theatrical family drama, so often confined to living rooms, setting the story of three adopted Asian American siblings across fantastical searches for pieces of their fractured identities—as the stage becomes an airport in Guangzhou, China, Nebraska, the sky, a prison, a front yard where a snowman lists grim historical facts. In Regretfully, So the Birds Are, the fantastical and the everyday coexist in the lives of characters navigating the unhinged world of contemporary American life.
