Laowang at Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theatre

When a high-rise developer threatens to buy out A-Poh's successful Chinatown restaurant, the martyr-complex matriarch gathers her three precious grandchildren from all corners of the country to plan their next mode of attack. There's just one problem: A-Poh's memory is rapidly fading. What follows is a chaotic journey through reality, myth, and magic as A-Poh travels between now and the great beyond in a last-ditch effort to preserve what's left of her family, her legacy, and her sanity. A caustic and imaginative spin on King Lear, the play explores the changing face of America's Chinatowns and the fight to preserve a fading cultural memory.