And only in such a dramatic tour de force do we learn how a fantasy can become a man's mistress?as well as his jailer. But in the end, there remains only one truth: Whether or not Gallimard's passion was a flight of fancy, it sparked the most vigorous emotions of his life.Only in real life could love become so unreal.
A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive?and as elusive?as a butterfly.How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government?and a man disguised as a woman? In a series of flashbacks, the diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government?and by his own illusions. David Henry Hwang?s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author ? winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer PrizeBased on a true story that stunned the world, M.
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