CHO CHO – National Theatre of China

Based on the tragic tale of Giacomo Puccini’s operatic masterpiece Madame Butterfly, Cho Cho is a brilliant musical theatre work set in Shanghai about the heroine’s life combining drama, puppetry, poetry and music. 

Presented by the National Theatre of China, Arts Centre Melbourne and Playking Productions, Cho Cho’s (then Cho Cho San) first incarnation was as a puppet play by playwright Daniel Keene and Handspan in 1984 before it was picked up by Playbox in 1986 and subsequently presented in Australia and China in 1988 by the Playbox Theatre Company.