5/10/2023 0 Comments M butterfly playThe group gossips about the fact that Gallimard is claiming "not to believe the truth," that he fell in love with Song without realizing they were a man all along. Gallimard watches as the group talks about him. I've never been considered witty or clever."Īnother part of the stage lights up and we see two men and one woman at a party. He announces, "I never dreamed this day would arrive. He speaks about the conditions of the prison in glowing terms, saying, "The French-we know how to run a prison." He then tells the audience that he is treated well, because he is a celebrity, because he makes people laugh. Gallimard addresses the audience, saying that his cell is four and a half by five meters, and that he has a small window. Slowly the music turns into a duet from the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly, the "Love Duet." As Song dances to the music, Gallimard approaches Song and tries to call to them, but the image of Song is just a memory. Nearby, Song, a performer dressed as a beautiful woman, does a traditional dance from the Peking opera to traditional Chinese music. The cell belongs to Rene Gallimard, a 65-year-old man who sits near a crate with a kettle and a portable tape recorder. The play opens in a prison cell in Paris in the "present," which, at the time the play was produced and published, would have been the late 1980s.
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