In the sweltering summer of AD18, a desperate chant echoed across China's sun-scorched plains: "Heaven has gone blind!" ...

Jiang Qing and 14-year-old Sun first meet in 1930s Shanghai at an audition for Ibsen’s The Doll’s House, and swiftly become ...

The writer Amy Ng has made a sterling effort in digging up the true story behind her new play at the Kiln, Shanghai Dolls, ...

Looking at the rise and fall of two powerful Chinese women through the vague lens of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House probably sounded good on paper. It’s a shame then that Shanghai Dolls fails to deliver ...

Spanning six decades, it tracks the interwoven history of two women who were pivotal in the political and cultural upheavals of Mao Zedong’s revolution, but whose stories are little-known here.An ...

Why? Historical evidence is scant, most is destroyed or locked away. Shanghai Dolls questions rather than answers. You can’t ...

Read our review of Shanghai Dolls at Kiln Theatre. Directed by Katie Posner, Amy Ng's drama about China's Sun Weishi and Jiang Qing is clumsy and flimsy ...

The source material here is undeniably compelling – a cautionary tale of resentment and repression. But this production ...

Early on in Shanghai Dolls, two impoverished young actresses swear by “Marx and Lenin” and by “Chekhov and Ibsen” to “make revolution ... Chinese women, Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi ...

Set in 1930s Shanghai, in a theatre that doubles as a secret socialist safe house, we meet Jiang Qing – the ... who helped define the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Shanghai Dolls explores the ...

Shanghai, two women meet in a mostly empty theatre. One is preparing to audition for the lead role of Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, while the other seeks a safe house, running from an ...

Spanning six decades, it tracks the interwoven history of two women who were pivotal in the political and cultural upheavals of Mao Zedong’s revolution ... into Jiang Qing, Mao’s fourth ...