CHINGLISH -- a new play by David Henry Hwang
NY-based playwright/creative team is looking for an actor for
CHINGLISH
(producer: New York Public Theater). Premiere production
scheduled for
June-July 2011 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre.
David Henry Hwang (TONY award-winning playwright, M BUTTERFLY;
other
Broadway credits include GOLDEN CHILD, FLOWER DRUM SONG, Disney's
AIDA and
TARZAN) is preparing a new play, CHINGLISH, with director Leigh
Silverman.
Hwang and Silverman's previous collaboration, YELLOW FACE, earned
two OBIE
Awards and was short-listed for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize.
SYNOPSIS:
When Daniel, an American businessman, goes to China to try and make
a
business deal, he finds himself lost in a world where he can't
understand
the language or the customs. Then he falls into a
relationship with a woman
who can influence whether he succeeds in landing the
contract.
SEEKING:
PETER: 30-50. A white Australian man who has lived and
worked in China for
20 years, and speaks fluent Mandarin. When he first arrived,
the mere fact
of being a Chinese-speaking white man made him employable and
successful.
Two decades on, he has been relegated to work as an English
teacher, but has
one last chance to claim his piece of the Chinese economic
miracle. Actor
MUST speak and read Mandarin, either in characters or pinyin form,
and be
able to speak English with a convincing Australian accent.
RESPOND TO Chinglish2010@gmail.com with CV and headshot.
Auditions will be
held when David Henry Hwang and Leigh Silverman visit Shanghai
(July 25 or
26) and Beijing (July 28 or 29).