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M BUTTERFLY - DAVID H HWANG KARTONIERT (TB)

Winner of the Tony Award for Best Play  nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama  and soon to
be back on Broadway in a revival directed by the Lion King's Julie Taymor  starring Clive Owen
"A brilliant play of ideas… a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two
worlds."-Frank Rich  New York Times Based on a true story that stunned the world  and inspired
by Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly  M. Butterfly was an immediate sensation when it
premiered in 1988. It opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being
held captive by the French government-and by his own illusions. He recalls a time when Song
Liling  the beautiful Chinese diva  touched him with a love as vivid  as seductive-and as
elusive-as a butterfly. How could he have known that his true love was  in fact  a spy for the
Chinese government-and a man disguised as a woman? The diplomat relives the twenty-year affair
from the temptation to the seduction  from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately
consumed them both. M. Butterfly is one of the most compelling  explosive  and slyly humorous
dramas ever to light the Broadway stage  a work of unrivaled brilliance  illuminating the
conflict between men and women  the differences between East and West  racial stereotypes-and
the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions.  The original cast included John
Lithgow as Gallimard and BD Wong as Song Liling. During the show's 777-performance run  David
Dukes  Anthony Hopkins  Tony Randall  and John Rubinstein were also cast as Gallimard. Hwang
adapted the play for a 1993 film directed by David Cronenberg  starring Jeremy Irons and John
Lone.  TEXT OF THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY PRODUCTION

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