#12booksof2022
April was an okay reading month for me overall, but listening to a production of M. Butterfly was absolutely a highlight of my reading year. I fell down many Wikipedia rabbit holes with this one. Would really love to see this performed live one day!
pickRich with layers and layers to analyze and consider. Poetic, informative, and brilliant when paired with the film.
And Gallimard? What. A. Clown.
#riotgrams challenge day 19:
Favorite school Read
M Butterfly, a play by David Henry Wang, won the Pulitzer in 1989. I read it in one of my college theatre classes and was transfixed by the story. Then I got the chance to see John Lithgow and BD Wong in the production at the Eugene O‘Neil theatre shortly thereafter. It was one of the most memorable performances I‘ve ever seen on stage.
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WATCH THE MOVIE FIRST! Don't read the synopsis! The movie is an amazing look at Mao's China and the changes the Cultural Revolution brings. It's a captivating love story and Jeremy Irons is ? "For the myths of the East, the myths of the West, the myths of men, and the myths of women—these have so saturated our consciousness that truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the result of heroic effort." #ChinaGrove #RockinMay @cinfhen
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