This Is Not a True Story at The Los Angeles Theatre Center

Fictional worlds collide with reality in world premiere comedy ‘This Is Not a True Story’. In this new play, CioCio from Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly completes her suicide, only to wake up realizing she is trapped in a never-ending loop of her story. Then Miss Saigon’s Kim joins the void, thrusting another tragic heroine into the deadly cycle, until a mysterious office woman throws their worlds out of balance. Written by Preston Choy and directed by Reena Dutt, This Is Not a True Story unravels the history of Orientalist art and theatre, and looks at what happens when the tragic Asian heroine takes control of her own story.