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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Judge, played by Hu Alaric Toy in David Hwang's Tony Award winning play M. Butterfly, asks Song Liling how he managed for 20 years to trick his lover Rene into thinking he was a woman, the Chinese actor, singer and spy replies, "One, because when he finally...

Author: By Anne E. Wyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Butterfly Morphs Again | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Inversions of sexual stereotypes have been used as an artistic device before. The most notable example occurs in the movie, The Crying Game, where the leading character is an IRA terrorist. Here, in M. Butterfly, Gallimard falls in love with a man that embodies his vision of what an ideal...

Author: By Anne E. Wyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Butterfly Morphs Again | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

M. Butterfly was the featured presentation last weekend of the Asian American Association Players under the direction of LeeAnn Tzeng together with producers Michelle Chen '99, Flora Kao '00 and Michelle Lee '01. The cast delivered energetic and entertaining performances but at times seemed to overplay the exaggerated prejudices of...

Author: By Anne E. Wyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Butterfly Morphs Again | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

Rene's feelings of sexual inadequacy vanish when he hears Song sing the death scene from Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, a tale of love between an American navy officer and Japanese opera singer who kills herself after the officer abandons her. Here is what Rene has dreamt of his...

Author: By Anne E. Wyman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Butterfly Morphs Again | 4/23/1999 | See Source »

M. Butterfly

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Groovy Train: Drama Queens | 4/15/1999 | See Source »

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