8/11/2025 – Beijing, Lao She Theatre

Helen, Alan, and Graham are told they are impaired and need fixing. As they begin to question the world around them, three powerful coming-of-age stories unfold, uniting in a struggle against violence, ignorance and oppression.

Connected through a shared past, they are transported to one pivotal moment in 1880 when a dangerous ideology was born: one that would impair the way the world views Deaf people for over a century.

Ad Infinitum combine the company’s signature style of physical storytelling with the beauty of British Sign Language in an unmissable feast for the senses. Extraordinary Wall is a bilingual performance in BSL and English.

20–23/11/2025 Beijing, Dahua City Performing Arts Centre
30/11 – Hangzhou, By Art Matters

Liam can’t switch off, can’t sit still, and is chaotic at school and at home. Three doors down, 91-year-old Albert keeps to his routines and misses his late wife. When their paths cross, what slowly grows is a friendship both of them need. Created through Community Conversations across the UK about ADHD, loneliness, ageing and connection, this full-mask, wordless production was named one of The Stage’s Top 50 Shows of 2024 and won an OffComm Award. “Poignant exploration of loneliness, connection and friendship” (The Stage).

20–23/11/2025 Beijing, Dahua City Performing Arts Centre
30/11 – Hangzhou, By Art Matters

Bob and Bernard don’t have much in common. But after a chance meeting at their weekly hospice group, they realise they share one ambition – to do some serious living before they die. With a bottle of Bollinger and the keys to Bernard’s Bentley, they hit the road for one final, death-defying adventure. Performed entirely in full mask and without words by the UK’s leading mask theatre company, Dead Good is a funny and poignant celebration of friendship and of living every precious day to the full. “The most perfect and powerful 70 minutes of silent storytelling you’re likely to see” (Arts City Liverpool).

06–07/12/2025 Shenzhen, Nanshan Orange Theatre
12–14/12/2025 Hebei, Aranya Beehive Theatre

‘Profoundly moving’ — BBC Radio 4

Since its 2017 premiere, The Nature of Forgetting has moved audiences from New York to Seoul, São Paulo to Shanghai, and played to sold-out houses across the US, China and beyond; establishing itself as one of the most powerful theatrical experiences of the past decade.

Following more than 200 performances worldwide, Theatre Re brings its explosive, powerful and joyous piece about what is left when memory is gone to China as part of its landmark 10th Anniversary Season.

Tom is living with young onset dementia. We meet him as he prepares for his 55th birthday party and past memories come flooding back. Developed with Neuroscience Professor Kate Jeffery and the Alzheimer’s Society, The Nature of Forgetting is a life-affirming journey into a weakening mind, where fragmented does not have to mean defeated.

As one of the UK’s leading visual theatre companies, Theatre Re combines original live music with striking visual performance to create deeply moving, non-verbal theatre about universal human challenges and the fragility of life.

24–26/10/2026 Beijing People’s Art Theatre International Theatre Invitational
13/11/2025 – Guangzhou, Tai Space
30/11/2025 Nanjing, Jiangsu Grand Theatre

Written and performed by Peruvian artist Pepa Duarte and directed by Sergio Maggiolo, Eating Myself turns the stage into a Peruvian kitchen, where a traditional soup is cooked live and its aroma fills the auditorium. Drawing on Pepa’s childhood in Peru and her journey to a new life in England, this solo show combines storytelling, physical theatre, music and real cooking to explore womanhood, body image, diet culture and cultural identity – a reminder that food is a gift, and an excuse to be with the ones we love.

20–23/11/2025 Beijing, Dahua City Performing Arts Centre
29–28/11/2025 – Shenzhen, Nanshan Orange Theatre

What if Romeo and Juliet didn’t die, but grew up and lived happily ever after – or at least lived? Now 40-ish, with at least one of them in the grip of a mid-life crisis, they feel mocked by their teenage selves and haunted by being the poster couple for romantic love. So they decide to confront their struggles by putting on a performance about themselves, even though their therapist says it is a terrible idea. 

Directed by Ben Duke, this duet blends dance, theatre and comedy to question our cultural obsession with youth, the myth of everlasting love and the expectations we place on marriage. “It’s not often you’re doubled over with laughter and wiping away tears of sadness during the same show” (The Scotsman).

23–26/10/2025 Shanghai, 2025 Shanghai International Theatre Invitational
01–02/11/2025 Beijing, Beijing Performing Arts Centre

In 1910, the then-unknown Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel set sail from Liverpool to New York as members of Fred Karno’s famous music hall troupe. On the voyage, they shared a cabin, comedy routines and laughter. 

Inspired by real events, Told by an Idiot’s acclaimed Charlie & Stan tells the remarkable story of the greatest double act that nearly was – a hilarious and deeply moving homage to two men who changed the world of comedy forever. Accompanied by live music composed and performed by MOBO Award-winning jazz pianist Zoe Rahman, this tribute to the silent movie era follows two young comedians on a voyage of self-discovery. “A riotous masterclass in storytelling” (WhatsOnStage).

31/05/2026 Shanghai, Shanghai Art Theatre

1 human. 48,000 species. A gloriously absurd physical performance combining animal impressions, clowning, sound, projection and immersive technology, offering a bittersweet reflection on biodiversity loss and life in an age of extinction.

Created and performed by Tom Bailey, Wild Thing! is a sequel to Mechanimal’s acclaimed 2019 production Vigil. Following its premiere at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025, the production embarked on a UK tour from Autumn 2025.

In this ambitious one-hour performance, Bailey attempts to embody 48,000 extinct and endangered species, bringing their extraordinary and often bizarre names to life through physical comedy, movement and imaginative animal impersonations. What begins as a hilariously unconventional challenge gradually unfolds into a more profound exploration of humanity’s relationship with the natural world.

Beneath its playful exterior lies a deeply moving meditation on extinction, loss and our responsibility towards the living world. Wild Thing! transforms an urgent environmental issue into an entertaining yet thought-provoking theatrical experience, reminding us of the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth — and how much we stand to lose.

30/05/2026 Shanghai, Shanghai Art Theatre

Zugunruhe: an ornithology term for ‘migratory restlessness in birds’. Zugunruhe explores the incredible flight of a marsh warbler, the world’s only bird whose song echoes its migration route. Body-compasses, magnetic fields, African sunsets, star-chasing, storm-riding, homing… in the context of human migration, Zugunruhe offers a wild, fresh look at animal migration.

Rehearsing among birds in the wetlands of Somerset, performer Tom Bailey creates a feast of bird behaviour alongside a digital sound map of the marsh warbler’s journey, made by composer Rowan Evans. The show premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018, where it received critical acclaim and a Herald Angel award.

31/10/2026 – 1/11/2026 – Shanghai, YOUNG Theatre
7/11/2026 – Beijing, Lao She Theatre

Brazilian Stage on Record is a showcase of four significant productions from Brazil, presented in Asia for the first time through filmed theatre performances. Part of the 2026 China-Brazil Year of Culture, the programme offers audiences an opportunity to explore the diversity, creativity and social relevance of contemporary Brazilian theatre.

Spanning themes of memory, identity, freedom, social inequality and resistance, the four productions bring distinct perspectives on Brazilian society and the human experience to the screen.

Through striking physical performances, powerful storytelling, music and innovative theatrical language, Brazilian Stage on Record brings the energy and pulse of Brazilian theatre to Asian audiences, creating a platform for international cultural exchange and dialogue.

Curated by: Jopa Moraes
Co-presented by: Performance Infinity
Special support: Guimarães Rosa Institute (IGR), Consulate General of the Federative Republic of Brazil in Shanghai