A NEW MUSICAL
Inspired by the real life pirate woman, Ching Shih
She rose from poverty to commanding a fleet of 800 ships and 60,000 pirates in the late
Qing Dynasty.
A 250 year old government.
An Opium crisis.
A trade imbalance between the east and west.
A leader who swore to make the Dynasty great again…
An old story with new urgency.
THE CARTOGRAPHER
XIANGGU BECOMES CHING SHIH
THE ESCAPE
She takes the hand of a pirate leader but demands half his power.
THE LEARNING
Six years on the water transforms her into a strategist, survivor, and leader.
THE COMMAND
Faced with the choice to fight, she becomes leader of the Red Flag Fleet. But at what cost?
THE RED FLAG FLEET
Red Waters was developed with
Berklee College of Music in Boston taught as a class of the musical theater development process.
The class culminated in a presentation featuring 14 singers, and 8 eight piece orchestra of Berklee students, May 2018.
LISTEN
GET ME OUT
NGUYEN THANH HIEN
FISHERMAN
BRYAN MUNAR
THE PRICE OF PEACE
Inevitably, with power comes the need to make hard choices. Good and bad, right and wrong are not always the simplest.
What would you do to survive?
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RED WATERS · A NEW MUSICAL