Chinglish

A Berkeley Repertory Theatre and South Coast Repertory production

Ten Best Plays in 2011, Bloomberg News and Time Magazine

“A comic gold mine!” NY Post

“A lethal comedy about business, sex and the failure to communicate...a script that bristles with intelligence.” Bloomberg News

“A zippy study of what gets lost in translation when east meets west, Chinglish is just the ticket!” The New York Times

“Fresh, energetic and unlike anything else on Broadway. Chinglish is a thoughtful, funny and poignant piece in which, miraculously, nothing gets lost in translation.”

“SEXY & HILARIOUS! A triumph in any language” New York Magazine

Associated Press *****

Entertainment Weekly *****

More than sword-crossing in linguistic faux pas, Chinglish is the work of David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) at its most cross-culturally fluent, if grammatically incorrect. The New York based Tony Award-winning playwright has concocted this romantic, sexy comedy in which an American businessman looking to score a lucrative contract in the Mainland meets and falls for a government official. In the midst of hilarious mistranslations, he finds himself caught in the turmoil of power, love and money. Will he be lost in translation?

Chinglish (The Set Changes)
The set changes feature two turntables, automated armchairs, moving walls, flying screens and curtains, even walking actors – all to the energetic beats of c-pop.