It was a common thing that more and more foreigners came to China to learn Chinese. They knew how to study Chinese to improve the proficiency of the language. They knew how to communicate with the Chinese about the Chinese culture or Chinese foods on some certain occasion. But for many Chinese, the performance by foreigners who spoke Chinese was the first time. The classic Broadway comedy the Odd Couple was performed at the National Center for the Performing Arts by 8 foreign actors. The performance received much applause and appreciation from the audience.

The foreigners who came to study Mandarin Chinese in China might be familiar the play the Odd Couple. The drama was famous all over the world and people got the same feeling about life and got resonance from the play. The plot was wonderful and the life and experience of the heroes in the play made the audience laugh as well as think the life. The play was originated in Broadway in America. It has been rehearsed and translated into many different languages and had been presented on the stage in different parts in the world.

The drama performed by the foreigners was full of originality and joy. The foreigners who spoke Chinese with tone of Beijing dialects made the audience feel novel. The National Center for the Performing Arts was crowded with people and there was no single seat left in the center. The play was two hours long and the performance made the audience laugh from the beginning to the end of the play. The foreign actors spoke Chinese fluently and the exaggerated body language made the performance more vivid and created much laugher.

It was the first time that the foreigners spoke Chinese to hold a western play on the stage. The play was popular and well-known in America. The popularity of the play was the same as the fame of the popular Chinese the Thunderstorm. The play told a story of two divorced men who lived under the same roof and got rid of the difficulty in life with help from each other. The performance of the struggle and escape of the heroes made the audience feel real. The audience said they did not expect the foreigners could speak so good English. The performance of the foreign actors was excellent.