ArtsWest to Stage Seattle Premiere of CHINGLISH, 3/5-29

ArtsWest has announced the Seattle Premiere of Chinglish, penned by renowned playwright, librettist and screenwriter, David Henry Hwang. Described in the New Yorker as "the most successful Chinese-American playwright this country has produced", David Henry Hwang may be best known for his Tony-winning play M. Butterfly (1988), but is also noted for writing insightful satire, often laced with his own quick wit.

In Chinglish, this humor is all too evident as this production 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 the search 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 - Chao
Evan Whitfield - Daniel Cavanaugh
Moses Yim - Bing, Judge Xu Geming

Chinglish plays March 5 - 29, 2015 (press tickets opening weekend March 5 - March 8) at ArtsWest Playhouse and Gallery (4711 California Ave SW, Seattle WA 98116). Tickets (ranging from $15 - $34.50) may be purchased online at www.artswest.org, by phone at 206.938.0339, or at the Box Office Thurs. - Sat. 1:30-7:30pm. Chinglish is being presented in conjunction with SIS Productions. www.sis-productions.org.