Bilingual improv show on 'KONGLISH' to highlight comedy inherent in learning new language
When doing improv, performers don’t have time to worry about errors, including those of the linguistic variety. This is a feature that Jordan Brown hopes to exploit with an upcoming comedy show, titled "ASSSSDOG: KONGLISH," bridging the divide between communities with different languages through humor. Four native Korean and five foreign-born performers, representing four monologists and five improvisers, will take to the stage for the improv comedy and storytelling show, with the Koreans acting in English and the foreigners in Korean. While the participants are all said to be fluent in the language in which they will be performing, the producer is still expecting a lot of slip-ups. In fact, he’s counting on it. Brown, the host of the event, is a seasoned improviser who’s performed onstage in both English and Korean. However, it was when he was acting in his non-native language that he made a surprising discovery. “The biggest laughs came when I was making mistakes,” he told The Korea Times. “For years I was very tough on myself when I would make mistakes speaking Korean. On
Aug 5, 2024By Rory Kelly
