A dance-theatre piece inspired in Jian Qing, the last wife of Mao Tse-tung, a woman that scarred China´s history. We explore the reasons that might make a woman become corrupted and choosing cruelty that leads to murderingng without remorse. Using contemporary dance, experimental and physical theatre, Madame Mao opens the doors of her prison to tell us the story of a woman with a heart on fire in times of  chauvinism, where manipulation and paranoia were the weapons to survive, where there was no place for maternity and abandonment and female humiliation led to madness. Deep inside, we see the fragility and complexity of humanity, so delicate, capable of love and destruction but very powerful at the same time.

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With this piece, Cia. Fholia Teatro wants to open dialogue about the consequences of our actions, the meaning of cruelty, its origins and give respect to the people that have suffered and are suffering the terrible consequences of the whims of bad rulers.