M. ButterflyDramatists Play Service Inc, 1988 - 93 Seiten Bored with his routine posting in Beijing, and awkward with women, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat, is easy prey for the subtle delicate charms of Song Liling, a Chinese opera star who personifies Galliamard's fantasy vision of submissive, exotic oriental sexuality. He begins an affair with "her" that lasts for twenty years, during which time he passes along diplomatic secrets, an act that, eventually, brings on his downfall and imprisonment. Interspersed with scenes between the two lovers are others with Gallimard's wife and colleagues that underscore the irony of Gallimard's delusion and its curious parallel to the events of Puccini's famous opera Madame Butterfly. Combining realism and ritual with vivid theatricality, the play reaches its astonishing climax when Song Liling, before our very eyes, strips off his female attire and assumes his true masculinity - a revelation that the deluded Gallimard can neither credit nor accept and which drives him finally - and fatally - deep within the fantasy with which, over the years, he has held the truth at bay. |
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ACT I Scene actors American Beat beautiful Beijing believe Black shoes Broadway BUTTERFLY FLAT Butterfly's China Chinese opera cigarette Comrade Chin costume course Creme suit Creme dance Dancers David Henry Hwang Dexter diplomat DRAMATISTS PLAY SERVICE dress Eiko Ishioka embassy ensemble flower French Gallimard Song Gallimard turns U.S. GALLIMARD'S CELL girl going Grey hands hate ISBN John Lithgow Jon Robin Baitz JUDGE Kenneth Lonergan kimono knew Kurogo light Lindsay Frost live looks Love Duet Madame Butterfly magazines Mao suit married Monsieur Gallimard Monsieur Song must've never night Offstage Okay Oriental Paris Party Pause Peiking Peking Opera Percussion Pinkerton robe Scene 11 Scene 9 SHARPLESS shoes Scene Shu-Fang silver tray Song Liling Song's sorry Sound cue stage starts story strip Stuart Ostrow sure Suzuki talk tell theatre there's thought tonight TOULON upstage wait West Western what's woman women Yeah
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