Admit it: you chuckle at emails that list goofy translations.
"Chinglish" at Broadway's Longacre Theatre has definitions mangled in translation as a main theme.
The first jokes are a photo projected on a screen that read "To take notice of safe/ The slippery are very crafty." This means slippery slopes ahead, Daniel Cavanaugh (Gary Wilmes) tells the audience.
"Finance affairs is everything long." This means CEO he tells us.
The fourth wall is not breeched again until the very end, and the play is deeper than the imprecision of translations.
David Henry Hwang's play uses humor to examine the cultural gulf between Chinese and American societies.
It's a broad comedy, at times a little too broad. Daniel is an American, a bit at odds in Guiyang, a "small city of 4 million." He wants to land a contract for his family business, a sign company, but is clueless as to...
"Chinglish" at Broadway's Longacre Theatre has definitions mangled in translation as a main theme.
The first jokes are a photo projected on a screen that read "To take notice of safe/ The slippery are very crafty." This means slippery slopes ahead, Daniel Cavanaugh (Gary Wilmes) tells the audience.
"Finance affairs is everything long." This means CEO he tells us.
The fourth wall is not breeched again until the very end, and the play is deeper than the imprecision of translations.
David Henry Hwang's play uses humor to examine the cultural gulf between Chinese and American societies.
It's a broad comedy, at times a little too broad. Daniel is an American, a bit at odds in Guiyang, a "small city of 4 million." He wants to land a contract for his family business, a sign company, but is clueless as to...
- 11/7/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Maintaining truthfulness and avoiding stereotypes are the major challenges when playing racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities.Consider the daunting task that Tamer Aziz faces in tackling a character who is gay, Iranian, and Muslim in Jay Paul Deratany's fact-based play "Haram Iran" (now at the Celebration Theatre in Hollywood). Or the issues that black actors deal with in enacting a brutal racist episode within the context of a minstrel show in John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "The Scottsboro Boys" (currently at New York's Vineyard Theatre). Justin Huen also has his work cut out for him playing Oedipus in Luis Alfaro's play "Oedipus el Rey," a retelling of Sophocles' tragedy set in a Los Angeles barrio (playing the Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena, Calif.). Jennifer Lim grapples with a fully assimilated and not very sensitive Asian American in Lauren Yee's satire "Ching Chong Chinaman" (now at New York's...
- 3/31/2010
- backstage.com
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