Tags: Play.

M. Butterfly is a 1988 play by David Henry Hwang loosely based on the relationship between French diplomat Bernard Boursicot and Shi Pei Pu a male Peking opera singer. The play premiered on Broadway at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre on March 20 1988 closing after 777 performances on January 27 1990. It was directed by John Dexter with stars John Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling.

author
David Henry Hwang
character in play
Comrade Chin, Helga, M. Toulon, Marc, Rene Gallimard, Renee and others, Song Liling
IBDB ID
5677
premiere date
1988-03-20
premiere place
Eugene O'Neill Theatre
premiere year
1988-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
A Paris prison 1988; recollections of Beijing and Paris
subject of play
East/West cultural stereotypes

Loading...

This page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article "M. Butterfly"; that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.