cover art
designed by Design Team One, Inc
with illustration
by Dave Miller, AIR Studio, Inc
A searing yet sympathetic portrait of the extraordinary Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi as she rises to power then finds herself, at the dawn of the twentieth century, fighting new forces of opposition from the suddenly rebellious people of China and from foreign powers eager to seize her land and destroy her civilization.
"Sweeping historical
drama...a villainess of epic proportions."
The New York Times
originally produced at the Pan Asian Rep in New York
5 M, 3 F (more actors may be used as non-speaking court attendants)
I S B N: 0-88145-039-1, $8.95