Dragon Legend Exploration Theatre Cultural Centre Studio Theatre, June 26-29 Exploration Theatre's Dragon Legend is about ethnic Chinese searching for their roots, a quest that sprawls across two generations, and shows that when roots branch out they also get entangled.
The play centres on Ah Gung, a boy of 10 who is found in the United States with no memories except a recurring dream of a flutist in a bamboo forest.
He is rescued from two exploitative Chinese American employers by a caring Western family.
He later marries a Hong Kong woman and they settle in Canada where their son is born. Ah Gung's search for his hometown in China leads him to the realisation that Canada, where his friends and family are, is his real home.
Meanwhile his son, after some initial cross-cultural animosity, forges a friendship with a Hong Kong Chinese and a mainland Chinese during a holiday project in China.
Ah Gung's brother-in-law, however, wants to emigrate to Australia. Although he stays in Hong Kong to look after his business, he sends his wife and son to Australia for naturalisation. But he, too, finally realises his roots are in Hong Kong.