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, ...

The year is 1935, a period of ongoing violent political upheaval in mainland China. Two females meet in the rehearsal space ...

Looking at the rise and fall of two powerful Chinese women through the vague lens of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House probably ...

Two women across six decades of upheaval are covered in this astonishing true story of Mao Zedong’s revolution ...

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

Amy Ng’s Shanghai Dolls has an original starting point. Two impoverished actresses meet at an audition for Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in 1935. One has her eyes fixed on stardom. The other is on the run ...

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 ...

Gabby Wong and Millicent Wong as Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi in ‘Shanghai Dolls’ (Marc Brenner) ...

Read our review of new play *Shanghai Dolls*, starring Gabby Wong and Millicent Wong, now in performances at the Kiln Theatre to 10 May. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.