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Book SynopsisWinner 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 TimesBased 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? T
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"A brilliant play of ideas … a visionary work that bridges the history and culture of two worlds."—Frank Rich, New York Times
"Audaciously imaginative … big in conception and theme, David Henry Hwang joins the first string of American playwrights."—Variety
"Just when you've seen every possible coupling, M. Butterfly presents one of the most provocative and touching of all."—USA Today
"Hwang has something to say and an original, audacious way of saying it. A rarity on Broadway."—Edwin Wilson, Wall Street Journal
