Updated version based on the true story of the story of a disgraced French diplomat and convicted spy — Bernard Boursicot — who, to the world's astonishment, learned at his trial that the Chinese woman who had been his secret lover for nearly 20 years was a man. It is intertwined with the opera Madame Butterfly.
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2017, NYC Cort Theatre, New York
2018
Dramatists Play Service
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Variable cast size. Main roles are 2 men, one who often plays a woman
Variable cast size. Main roles are 2 men, one who often plays a woman
Stylized
The play explores the plight of cerebral palsy victims trapped in a Zolaesque sweatshop that masquerades as a rehabilitation center. The entire play takes place in the men's toilet, one room the CP patients can be themselves in. The playwright, himself a victim of cerebral palsy, shows us that even CP victims get bored with rug weaving and block making and folding boxes.
Realistic
After Corbett’s "dead" snake escapes, bizarre things begin to happen in the house. Some of its inhabitants wonder if it is the snake or the spirit of the house that is haunting them. The darkness in this play may not be the result of the lives led by the characters, but the house they live in. As Violet says, "Nothing good ever happened in this house."
