While Beijing Playhouse has just concluded auditions for a September performance of Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, a separate troupe of actors is in the middle of a run of performances of an originally written play about life in Beijing. This is their blurb:
I Heart Beijing is a rowdy sendup of life in the capital: Naughty nymphette Ting Ting is a Beijinger by birth but a cosmopolitan girl at heart, she and her headstrong American roommate Sylvia have just moved into an apartment and find themselves hosts to the antics of their friends; John a womanizing laowai who names all his girlfriends Apple, and Lucy a schizophrenic ABC who has an orgasm at the merest of mention of Stephen Colbert’s name. And life in Beijing seems as it should.
That is, until Ting Ting’s arrogant and protective older brother Liu Ming joins the group and fireworks fly. But not the romantic fireworks that sparkle happily in a Hollywood movie, rather those that explode dangerously nearby as you stumble home after dumplings and beer.
There are perfomances on the 15th, 16th and 17th at 7.30 pm at BCIS. Email Elyse at tickets@iheartbeijing.com to reserve tickets. You can also visit the I Heart Beijing website, or read an SCMP article republished on the I♥北京 blog.