Information for Shanghai Dolls at The Kiln (formerly Tricycle Theatre), Inner London (Play). The true story of a cultural martyr and a cultural oppressor. When two penniless actresses meet in Shanghai at auditions for Ibsen's A Doll's House, they quickly become inseparable. But as political upheaval rips through China, their tumultuous friendship will alter not only the course of their lives, but the course of history. One will become China's first female director. The other, the architect of the Cultural Revolution.