FLYING TIGERS FLYING AWAY Comes to Theatre At Saint Peter's

In 1941, months before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the First American Volunteer Group, the Flying Tigers, was formed and joined the Second World War in Asia.

The play revolves around three young Flying Tigers pilots and two Chinese medical volunteers in Kunming, in the Yunnan province of China. The war changes these five young people whose lives are intertwined. Seventy years later in 2012, those who are alive meet in Kunming again. Long buried secrets are solved and they begin writing new chapters in their lives.

This Off-Broadway production serves as a not-for-profit transcultural program initiated by North America Maple Culture Center and supported by the XMedia Lab at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education and the US-China YES Foundation.

A sociologist and a writer, Ms. Zhang has published sixteen books, including novels, poems, and plays. She has been active in the Chinese community in the U.S. and has established more than twenty Maple Theatre Groups across the country within the past three years. She hopes to provide a platform to promote cultural exchange through performance arts. Over the past decade, she has visited and interviewed more than a hundred veterans of the Second World War veterans and gradually developed her own insight into the nature of war, which has inspired the creation of Flying Tigers Flying Away. She is outspoken about the importance of cross-cultural communication and understanding and hopes to use the art form of theatre to advocate for world peace.