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Chinglish
Mar 05 – Mar 29 2015
Chinglish
By David Henry Hwang
March 5 – March 29, 2015
Seattle Premiere
This laugh-out-loud comedy by the much celebrated Tony-Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), merrily spews forth mutilated and mangled idioms, slang and pronunciations, against the backdrop of stranger-in-a-strange-land tensions. Our protagonist, a naïve American business man, finds himself in China trying to sell a Cultural Minister signs with proper English translations, all the while making his own blunders not only in language, but in cultural etiquette, sex, and in searching for the best guanxi!
Production Run
March 5 – March 29
Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 3pm
*Run time 2 hours with an intermission
In Conversation Series
Friday, March 13 – In Conversation – talk-back with the designers of Chinglish
Sunday, March 22 – In Conversation – talk-back with the actors of Chinglish
Tickets
Center Adults – $34.50 Side Adults – $28.00
Center Seniors – $31.00 Side Seniors – $28.00
Under 25 – $15.00 Side Youth – $15.00
Chinglish is presented in conjunction with SIS Productions:
SIS Productions is a production company that strives to create, develop and produce quality works that involve Asian American women, their themes, and Asian American issues. SIS Productions encourages opportunities and support for Asian American women to be involved in all aspects of the production of artistic endeavors.
Chinglish
By David Henry Hwang
March 5 – March 29, 2015
Seattle Premiere
This laugh-out-loud comedy by the much celebrated Tony-Award winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly), merrily spews forth mutilated and mangled idioms, slang and pronunciations, against the backdrop of stranger-in-a-strange-land tensions. Our protagonist, a naïve American business man, finds himself in China trying to sell a Cultural Minister signs with proper English translations, all the while making his own blunders not only in language, but in cultural etiquette, sex, and in searching for the best guanxi!
Creative Team
Director – Annie Lareau
Assistant Director – Chesa Greene
Assistant Director/Stage Manager – David Hsieh
Scenic Designer – Carey Wong
Co-Scenic Designer – Burton Yuen
Lighting Designer – Kori Hjelm
Costume Designer – Kelly McDonald
Co-Sound Designer – Harry Todd Jamieson
Co-Sound Designer – Jay Weinland
Cast
Audrey Fan – Miss Qian, Prosecutor Li
Kathy Hsieh – Xi Yan
Hing Lam – Cai Guoliang
Guy Nelson – Peter Timms
Serin Ngai – Zhao
Evan Whitfield – Daniel Cavanaugh
Moses Yim – Bing, Judge Xu Geming
ArtsWest’s Chinglish is funny and refreshing – Amanda Knox, West Seattle Herald
Cultural Divides in ArtsWest’s Chinglish – Jay Irwin, Broadway World
English/Chinese combo – a great night in translation – Miryam Gordon
Chinglish – Jerry Kraft, Seattle Actor
‘Chinglish’ A Witty, Energetic Production Not to Miss – Jaqueline Wu, The International Examiner
David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish” at ArtsWest – Nancy Worssam, Arts Stage, Seattle Rage
‘Chinglish’: East meets West across the Linguistic Divide – Misha Berson, The Seattle Times
‘Chinglish’ at ArtsWest explores bilingual adventures in translation – Judy Chia Hui Hsu