Anna Ouyang Moench's play is about a father and daughter whose relationship withers along with the bird species they watch together
Over the past 20-plus years of covering San Diego theater, I’ve followed the careers of several favorite local artists, who include actor Mike Sears and director Lisa Berger, his wife.
Moench has described “Birds” as a play about climate change, told through the story of an aging father, John, and his adult daughter, Caitlyn, who meet several times over a period of some 15 to 20 years to watch birds in John’s Baltimore backyard. Father and daughter monitor and record the gradual, global warming-related changes in the migration patterns and die-off of the city’s birds, bees and butterflies.
Dinga is also excellent as Caitlyn, who birds with John to maintain a connection, then grows to love the sport. Dinga sensitively portrays Caitlyn’s wounded reserve and crushing sadness over several personal and career failures, but Dinga’s Caitlyn can also dish back insults as well as her dad. And Dinga’s pain and hurt as Caitlyn is palpable when John’s needling finally, and irreversibly, strikes a bone.
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