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

Here, she meets Sun Weishi, who will go on to become the first female theatre director of China. But for now, they are just two penniless actors standing at the edge of upheaval, both personal and ...

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

This drama about the relationship between Jiang Qing and director Sun Weishi feels like a rushed waste of a fascinating true ...

Amy Ng’s fascinating but frustrating new play traces the intertwined lives of two enormously significant Chinese women, Jiang Qing and Sun Weishi, mixing fact with imagination. In her account ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...