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Shanghai Dolls review " treachery and affinity between the women of Mao's world by Arifa Akbar

Kiln theatre, LondonAmy Ng's 'untold true story' of two friends, who become China's foremost theatre director and Mao Zedong's wife, is a story of survival and a play of ideas It begins with accidental friendship between an actor practising her lines at a theatre in Shanghai and a grieving teenager whose father has just died, but who shows a natural gift for directing when she gets pulled into rehearsals. Lan Ping (G…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM on April 11, 2025

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