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M. Butterfly. by David Henry Hwang
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M. Butterfly. (original 1988; edition 1998)

by David Henry Hwang

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John Lithgow and B.D. Wong recreate their original roles from the Tony Award-winning production. Inspired by an actual espionage scandal, a French diplomat discovers the startling truth about his Chinese mistress.

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Title:M. Butterfly.
Authors:David Henry Hwang
Info:Dramatists Play Service Inc (1998), Paperback
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M. Butterfly by David Henry Hwang (1988)

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    jjlong: journal of a Massachusetts community theater's staging of "M. Butterfly". Very involving, whether you're into community theater, or have just read the play.
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FANTASTIC. A cutting and innovative interrogation of "Orientalist" stereotypes, using a real-life story and the opera *Madame Butterfly.* I am pretty sure this is the play I will be teaching this fall. ( )
  DrFuriosa | Dec 4, 2020 |
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A play reimagining Madame Butterfly. The author based it on a brief news article about a man who had a long term affair with someone he thought was a woman, but was in fact a man. So this telling of Butterfly has lots of specific references (music, etc) but has a gender twist that is unexpected.

Still not a fan of reading plays (read this one for the #ReadHarder challenge)....the stage/lighting directions seemed to give me a hard stop and interrupted the flow of the dialog in such a way that they story was choppy. From what I understand the actual performance of the play is quite amazing. ( )
  Terrie2018 | Feb 21, 2020 |
Better than I expected, but the summary in the beginning ruined the plot for me. ( )
  Linyarai | Feb 16, 2020 |
Most people I talk to when discussing a book/play that has been made into a film, will invariably say to me ' the book was better'. I don't know if people have said this about M Butterfly, but if they said it, I don't agree. Had I read this before I saw the film with Jeremy Irons, I most likely would not have even finished it. I would have preferred it as a novel or a biography, not a play.

The film is wonderful, and the customs fantastic and colorful. The play is a dull gray in comparison. ( )
  REINADECOPIAYPEGA | Jan 11, 2018 |
This play was better than I thought it was going to be. The plot got really interesting in the second Act. I do admit at times it was hard to tell what aspects were from the Operas they were discussing and the actual play I was reading. This play brought up some touchy topics and I thought it was wonderful. ( )
  Dr_Cicle | Nov 4, 2017 |
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