THEA 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: John Luther Long, Pierre Loti
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Phone call from hallie"s mom saying she is at the hospital. Hallie turns against sam and berates and insults him. Hallie demands to be called master harold . Sam drops his trousers to show hallie his lashes. Sam tries to mend his relationship with hallie. Sam gets up and leaves, but call"s master harold hallie before he leaves. Opened in 1988 on broadway, ran for almost 2 years. John lithgow as rene gallimard: tony nominated, but did not win. Two inspirations for m. butterfly: fantasy, reality, hwang relies heavily on the story of puccini"s opera madame butterfly (1904) Opera is based on a play madame butterfly: a tragedy of japan (1900) Play is based on short story madame butterfly by john luther long (1898) Short story is based on popular semi-autobiographical french novel. Madame chrystanthememe (1887) by pierre loti about a naval officer having an affair with a geisha in nagasaki, japan.
