Miss Saigon, Yellow Face and the colourful evolution of answer plays
David Henry Hwang's new play is the latest in a series of interlinked works including Madame Butterfly that question racial and social attitudesThere's a phenomenon in pop music of the "answer song", written in direct response to another track: Carole King, for instance, recorded a number called Oh, Neil! after hearing Neil Sedaka's Oh, Carol! There's a similar though sparser theatrical genre of answer …