Bernard Bouriscot's The Making Of M Butterfly

The play begins with Gillimard sitting in his prison cell. He then starts to tell the audience his unique stories of his life. The flashbacks start with Gillimard. He is a French diplomat. While he is in China, he goes and sees an opera named Madame Butterfly. The main role is played by a woman/man named Song Lining. Gillimard is in love with her cultural beauty and acting skills. Over twenty years, Song and Gillimard had a sexual relationship and over those twenty years, Gillimard would tell Song about all the secrets of the French government thinking he could trust her, but she was secretly a spy and was telling these secrets to the Chinese communist party. As Song goes to visit Gillimard in French to tell the truth to him. As Gillimard is tried for espionage, Song also reveals that he is a man. Gillimard later killed himself in prison. …show more content…
Someone told him about the story of the man that fell in love with a male performer that played female roles. The “female,” Shi Pei Pu went with it and started a sexual relationship Bernard Bouriscot. Shi Pei PU was a spy for China and had Bouriscot tell her information about the French. In the end, Shi Pei Pu reveals that she was guy and they both went to prison for six years for spying and Bouriscot tried to kill himself in prison but failed. Hwang barely knew the story because internet was not popular yet, he knew the basics and wanted to expand the story. The playwright is interested because Hwang was almost spot on even though he didn’t know the full story. He actually didn’t learn about the full real story until till M. Butterfly got popular and when he did it was extremely close to the real story. The guy the story was wrote about, Bernard Boursicot, came and watched the play and said that the psychology part of the play was extremely accurate. That honestly shows how incredible his playwriting skills are to be almost spot on when you did not know the full