Finding Butterfly

Radical reinterpreters of musical theatre The Wedding Collective stage a site-specific update of Puccini's tragic opera 'Madam Butterfly', using the original music but transposing the main action to the 1920s and retelling the story through the eyes of the son Puccini's heroine is forced to give away. Returning to Nagasaki after WWII, he rediscovers his Japanese heritage, the story of his birth, and his mother's terrible betrayal at the hands of his father.