M. Butterfly

Description

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly was a glorified story about an American navy boy in Japan, failing his oriental love for his soon-to-be wife, Butterfly.

In an alternative universe of 1960s China, amidst the rise of the cultural revolution, Rene Gallimard, a French diplomat newly tasked with high-profile intelligence, falls in love with a mystical Beijing Opera singer, Song Liling, in his attempts to escape the expatriate circles. Restraining physical contact, Song cites Confucian modesty, but Rene is dissatisfied — he must create his fantasies — of Song, of the Orient, and even of his motherland, France, to live through the next two decades.

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Performances:

• 19:45 on 2022-05-17 at ADC Theatre
• 19:45 on 2022-05-18 at ADC Theatre
• 19:45 on 2022-05-19 at ADC Theatre
• 19:45 on 2022-05-20 at ADC Theatre
• 19:45 on 2022-05-21 at ADC Theatre