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Book Description
Starring: B.D. Wong, John Lithgow, Margaret Cho, David Dukes, Joanna Frank, Arye Gross, Kathryn Layng
The complete play on 2 CDs Running time: 114 minutes
John Lithgow and B.D. Wong recreate their original roles from the Tony Award-winning production. Inspired by an actual espionage scandalContinue
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- English Books
- Audio CD
- Edition: Unabridged
- ISBN-10: 1580811779
- ISBN-13: 9781580811774
- Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works
- Pub date: Dec 30, 2000
- Dimensions: 180 mm x 150 mm x 30 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and Audio Cassette
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The play tells us about Rene Gallimard, a white man who works for the French embassy in China and falls in love with a female opera singer, Song.</p><p>Oriental women are seen in this play as delicate, submissive, prudish and ready to please men because that is the general view Westerns ... (continue)
The play tells us about Rene Gallimard, a white man who works for the French embassy in China and falls in love with a female opera singer, Song.</p><p>Oriental women are seen in this play as delicate, submissive, prudish and ready to please men because that is the general view Westerns have on them. Gallimand falls not for Song but for an ideal woman he has imagined due to the obsession he has with Madama Butterfly and to prejudices and stereotypes on Asian woman in general.</p><p>There are strong oppositions between East and West. Asia is seen as a traditional, old civilization whereas Europe and America are synonyms of progress, power and modernity.</p><p>Song takes advantage of his blindness because she wants to serve his country, and she demonstrates that traditional roles and behaviour of both sexes is usually an unnatural and social convention by playing the part of a feminine woman perfectly, “because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act".</p><p>He finally admits he is Madama Butterfly because he is the victim, Song has always controlled and even manipulated him, taking advantage of his racial prejudices.
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