Cuckoo Birds

Sypnosis

"This "Edna and Julie" thread provided Hennedige with a vehicle for the kind of dialogue she writes best - dialogue where, underneath a skin of banal prose, a pustular rash of poetry is always threatening to erupt."  The Flying Inkpot

“A powerful and gripping play highlighting the violence around us, Cuckoo Birds was brought to life by a stellar cast...

“Successfully mixing together many different sketches, characters, as well as elements both absurd and serious, Cuckoo Birds was a remarkably well-written performance, that succeeded in being a thought-provoking and entertaining look at how violence exists in our society, and the search to find peace, despite it all.”  

The Star

First performed in Kuala Lumpur in 2009 as part of leading Malaysian arts collective Five Arts Centre’s 25th Anniversary Celebrations, Cuckoo Birds is a kaleidoscopic collision of personal and collective stories, connected and disconnected characters, real and imagined events all played out within a plastic container, sealed for extra protection! Boldly encountering things violent, random and absurd, Cuckoo Birds is a contemporary theatrical experiment exploring the search for serenity in our often mad and brutal modern world.

Marking an exciting collaboration with Cake Theatrical Productions and Five Arts Centre, Cuckoo Birds fuses the artistic vocabularies and philosophies of both companies, in a celebration of artistic energies that defies borders.