Designing Broadway: Scenic Designer David Korins on Creating the 'Chinese Puzzle' Sets of Chinglish
When David Korins was hired to design the sets of Chinglish, the story of an American businessman who goes to Guiyang, China, to drum up business for his sign-making company, he began with research on the city itself (“not one of the sexy coastal cities”). Korins found inspiration from “architecture that is aspirational, but not that well-designed.” Then lightning struck. After reading the pla…