This play opens in a jail cell, where the protagonist remembers the performance of a duet in a certain opera by (*) Liling Song.
One character in this play posits that wars are caused by men not knowing who has the larger penis, and that "what we call a civilized society" is simply a world "run by men with pricks the size of pins." The protagonist of this play commits suicide while his lover smokes and watches. One character in this play refuses to ($) remove her clothes while lying about a pregnancy, and this play's protagonist has multiple affairs after marrying Hilga. This play opens in a jail cell, where the protagonist remembers the performance of a duet in a certain opera by (*) Liling Song. That protagonist, Rene Gallimard, is based on Bernard Boursicot, who had an affair with a male Chinese opera singer that he thought was female. For ten points, identify this David Henry Hwang play whose title borrows from a Puccini opera.
One character in this play posits that wars are caused by men not knowing who has the larger penis, and that "what we call a civilized society" is simply a world "run by men with pricks the size of pins.
{M. Butterfly}