Shanghai Moon
by Charles Busch

Name: Shanghai Moon
Brand: Charles Busch
SKU: 9780573627286
Rating: 3.33 (6 reviews)

Shanghai Moon Book Cover — Shanghai Moon Cover

Highlights

Medium Cast

Female

Male

90 mins 1930s Multicultural Casting Interior Set Period Costumes American Comedy

Synopsis

A spoof of 1930's oriental movie melodramas, this wild concoction by the author of Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, Psycho Beach Party and The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, recounts the outrageous story of a notorious young beauty who visits Shanghai in 1931 with her elderly husband, a British diplomat.

Soon Lady Sylvia (who can be played by a woman or a man as in the New York production) is involved in a steamy affair with a mysterious warlord.

She incurs the wrath of his jealous mistress and his most trusted advisor while becoming ensnared in an exotic world of opium addiction, drug smuggling and white slavery where even branding her derriere with a red-hot poker is not forbidden.

Themes Comedy Melodrama PS3552.U813 S48 2000 Stereotypes (Social psychology)

Press Reviews

"Happy, cockeyed new melodrama [...] [that] distills the essence of every bona fide broad who roamed the silver screen [...] Evokes the racy, gritty sensibility of Hollywood movies [...] before censorship clamped down on the studios [...] Packs more twists in ninety minutes than a year's worth of All My Children."
— The New York Times

"An engaging, often hilarious spoof [...] Highly entertaining."
— New York Daily News

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Mah Li	—	—	—
General Gong Fei	—	—	—
Lord Allington	—	—	—
Lady Sylvia Allington	—	—	—
Mrs. Paula Carroll	—	—	—
Pug Talbot	—	—	—
Sir Lionel	—	—	—
Sir Geoffrey	—	—	—
Dr. Wu	—	—	—