M. Butterfly (1988)

Written by David Henry Hwang
Directed by John Dexter
Cast: John Lithgow, John Getz, Rose Gregorio, George N. Martin, BD Wong, Lori Tan Chinn, Lindsay Frost, Jamie H. J. Guan

The first act introduces the main character, René Gallimard, a civil servant attached to the French embassy in China. In a prison, Gallimard is serving a sentence for treason. Through a series of flashbacks and imagined conversations, Gallimard tells an audience his story about a woman that he loved and lost.

Theater

Eugene O'Neill Theatre · Broadway

Closed

January 27, 1990