{"id":11096,"date":"2011-11-08T04:11:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T04:11:55","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-11-08T04:11:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T04:11:45","slug":"David-Henry-Hwang-s-Chinglish-on-Broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11096","title":{"rendered":"David Henry Hwang\u2019s \u201cChinglish\u201d on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Best known for authoring M Butterfly, David Henry Hwang returns to Broadway with his latest Sino American comedy, Chinglish. Though Hwang doesn\u2019t personally speak Chinese, as he grew up in Southern California as a Chinese American, he explores the subtleties and nuances of language and their meanings between cross cultures of America and China with sprinklings of comic relief from mistranslation. The result is a fresh, poignant and timely screenplay brilliantly executed by his handpicked Asian and American cast. Here, Asiance toasts the talented David Henry Hwang on opening night and chats with him about his inspirations and personal experiences that have been translated into the play.<\/em><\/p>\n

ASIANCE: How did you come up with the idea for \u2018Chinglish\u2019? <\/h3>\n

David:<\/b> I would go over to Asia for Broadway shows for meetings and once I was taken to a brand new cultural center that was beautiful in every way except for the badly translated Chinglish signs and that\u2019s when I thought about writing a play about doing business which would deal with the issue of language and also one where the Chinese characters can have the dignity with their own language.<\/p>\n