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Madame Butterfly's Revenge: Racism, Sexism, and Imperialism Come to Broadway |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Richard Grenier |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1988 |
| Size: 1,771 Words, 10,735 Characters |
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It has been a long time since a new American play has received such reviews on Broadway.
"Visionary. Brilliant" (New York Times). "Electrifying" (Wall Street Journal). "Theater at its most challenging and entertaining. Will never be forgotten" (New York Post). "Thrilling" (CBS). "One I will see and see again. Unforgettable" (NBC). "Breathtaking" (Metromedia). "Masterful" (USA Today). "Dazzling" (Christian Science Monitor). And so on, and on: AP UPI ("a theatrical treasure"), the Hearst newspapers, Newhouse newspapers, even the normally prudent trade publication, Variety.
The reviews convey no notion that there is anything polemical about M. Butterfly, even though author David Hwang--in a major interview published in the New York Times Magazine before opening night--let it slip...
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...ut how the West is rotten, sexist, racist, imperialist, and everything else bad he can think of. As opposed to Shanghai in People's China, for example, where if his father had stayed on he might be a socialist worker, hauling coal on a flatbed cart with a strap-harness over his naked shoulder, rather like an animal. Nothing sexist, racist, or imperialist about that. David Hwang might like it.
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