TSL presents a screening of the 1999 production of Mao Wow, an original piece by Linda Mussmann.
On May 14th, 1991, Mao Zedong’s widow, Jiang Qing was found hanged in her prison cell.
When the news reached Mussmann, she was intrigued to learn that Madame Mao, a former actress, had still been alive. Mao Wow is an abstract rumination on how this fallen leader may have spent her final decade behind bars; re-enacting the death scenes of her favorite dramatic roles,