One character in this play refuses to ($) remove her clothes while lying about a pregnancy, and this play's protagonist has multiple affairs after marrying Hilga.
One character in this play posits that wars are caused by men not knowing who has the larger penis, and that "what we call a civilized society" is simply a world "run by men with pricks the size of pins." The protagonist of this play commits suicide while his lover smokes and watches. One character in this play refuses to ($) 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}