PAPER MENAGERIE | Stage & Film Summer Season at the Bardavon

• Based on the Short Story “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu
• Book by Lloyd Suh
• Music by Thao Nguyen
• Lyrics by Thao Nguyen & Lloyd Suh
• Musical Supervision by Chris Fenwick
• Dramaturgy by Christine Mok
• Directed by Chay Yew

In Paper Menagerie, based on the short story “The Paper Menagerie” by Ken Liu, a biracial son struggles to understand an enduring rift with his Chinese immigrant mother. Through ancestral magic and an array of paper animals his mother breathes to life on stage, this new musical explores the magic that is possible when what was left unsaid is finally heard.