Chinglish premiered at the goodman theatre in chicago, illinois, where it ran from june 18, 2011, until july 31, 2011. It is a comedy about an american businessman desperate to launch a new enterprise in china, which opened on broadway in 2011 with direction by leigh silverman. Chinglish is the hilarious story of an american businessman desperate to launch a new enterprise in china. Chinglish uses power struggles, plot twists and translated supertitles to make transparent what is normally hidden to outsiders.
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