CMU School of Drama


Friday, March 24, 2017

5 minutes with Candy Ma: 'Chinglish is increasingly relevant to today's world'

WhatsOnStage.com: Chinglish is about an American businessman who comes to China to establish a new sign business. In China the signs have beautiful letters, but the English translation is often totally stupid. Like a disabled toilet can be 'deformed men toilet'. It's very, very bad. So this business man has come to help companies fix this, but he encounters lots of multi-layered politics and has a complicated relationship with a woman called Xi Yan, who I play.

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