Mind your language

PANGDEMONIUM, one of the best theatre companies in Singapore, has picked David Henry Hwang's play Chinglish to be its last show of the year. Hwang, of course, is the most famous among Asian-American playwrights, being the first to win a Tony Award for his 1988 play M Butterfly as well as other awards such as the Obie for F O B.

Like these and nearly all of his other plays, Chinglish explores the always tricky meeting between the East and West. It tells the story of Midwe…