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.
