世博会演出结束了以后还没机会好好的休息，我就马上开始几个新的项目。一个演出在顺义的京西国际学校的短剧，还有几个玩皮猴子戏剧社的话剧。其中一个话剧（恐怖类型！）是要用中国的皮影木偶形式来演出，故事讲述是来自美国的一个很有名的故事。所以，我正好有了一个借口多学习另外一种中国的传统文化 仔细想想：我哪有那么多时间再学新的表演？哈哈，根本没时间，可是我是那么喜欢感兴趣，应该找一些空闲时间学习学习。加油小柳！好的，一定要学，现在做准备吧！先得找个老师吧！ I had the pleasure last week of crashing a birthday party dinner thing at 798 and checking out a fantastic set of traditional puppet shows. Mind you, we were invited, but still, it felt like crashing, which perhaps made it slightly more fun I’m working on a couple of show ideas involving puppets, [...]

Just wanted to share a random picture from my time in Dingzhou. On my way to set the other day, I passed by this cute lil guy and just couldn’t resist getting a picture. Not that I’m endorsing this particular brand of baijiu (nor have I ever even tried it) but the statue was just [...]

Walking to work this morning (with a nasty headache from the filming yesterday for the semi-final episode for TianJin TV’s “International Top Chef”) I passed by this amusing sight…  I didn’t quite manage to capture the sense of chaos meets curiosity, but it was one of those “only in Beijing” moments. Back to your regularly [...]

For the first time in 5 years I decided to come home for Christmas this year. Home, however, being a loosely term defined by wherever my family happens to be congregating for the holiday. This year it was decided to hold the festivities at my sister’s new house in upstate New York (aka: the Land [...]

I’m proud to announce after much stress/suffering (which I dealt with by muching down on some fabulous Dove extra-dark 60% chocolate) I have finished putting the code together for the ChocoJing mailinst list.  If you want to be kept up to date on the amazing and uber-cheap chocolate parties and tastings that we’ll be doing, [...]

“It was a cold and windy Saturday night but plenty of people still made the trek to 798-Dashanzi to catch the Chinglish comedy I Heart Beijing. More of a sketch comedy than a fully-fledged play, the drama was both educational and entertaining. Educational in the sense that audiences learnt the meaning of “cao ni da [...]