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It Is Right to Rebel! [Vassar’s Powerhouse Theater 2025]
Part of The Tank residency
Written by Andy Boyd
Directed by Zinc Tong
It is Right to Rebel! tells the story of Jiang Qing, who was Mao Zedong’s wife for thirty-eight years and eventually one of the most powerful women in the Communist world. After a hardscrabble climb from street urchin to first lady, Jiang Qing begins a reform movement in Chinese theatre that quickly becomes something much more sinister: the Cultural Revolution. However, when Mao dies without naming her his successor, she quickly falls from power and is put on trial for treason. This is a play about theatre as politics, politics as theatre, and revenge as revolution.
