abstractSynopsis:
A young Chinese girl travels to America, and unexpectedly falls in love with a border protection officer, while her brother’s blackmarket business is running out of control... In the meantime, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation released a public alert about the newest Hudson River invader – Chinese Mitten Crabs. And yet, on the other side of the earth, people in China have been enjoying them as the most classic and expensive delicacy for thousands of years. The play blends the two stories above into a dark comedy, which ambitiously aims to rephrase the American immigration history (from the first permanent Spanish settlement in 16th century to Dream Act in 21st century), and exam our prejudice to the cultures of others’, and sometimes, our own.