Lippy was widely regarded as one of the most extraordinary works to come out of Ireland in 2013 and was the winner of two OBIE Awards in New York, a Fringe First, and the Irish Times Award for Best Production. Lippy was staged at the Studio Theatre of the Grand Theatre from 29th to 31st October during Wuzhen International Theatre Festival 2019. Lippy is full of realism and absurd drama style. It used simple colours, repeated life details and fragmented narratives step by step, guiding the audience to explore the truth together.

Paperwork was produced by BetweenTwoHands (Netherlands) and staged as part of the Wuzhen International Theatre Festival 2019 in Zhaoming Academy from 26th to 28th October. Paperwork is a theatrical installation inspired by the life and work of the Prague writer, Franz Kafka. The aim is for the viewer to be able to feel as alienated, out of place or astonished as the protagonist often feels in the stories of Kafka.

BetweenTwoHands decided to work with paper because paper refers to all the paperwork involved in bureaucracy. And it is a material that can transform from 2D to 3D also represents the vulnerability of the protagonist from Kafka’s stories. As the audience, you get not only a sense of the fragility of the paper objects, but also the vulnerable nature of the protagonists.

China Shanghai International Arts Festival (ChinaSPAF) is a state-level annual international arts festival hosted by the Chinese government and organized by the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government. Which is the leading annual marketplace for new works from China to connect creators and arts professionals worldwide.

This October, Dutch Performing Arts Fund NL featured six exciting Dutch performance art companies to host a promotion presentation in ChinaSPAF 2019, an annual international art festival, aim to promote Dutch music, theatre and dance. This presentation is dedicated to strengthening the links between Dutch art workers with international art institutions. Seeking to stimulate international interest in Dutch art companies and artists with global potential. Performance Infinity proudly supported this event.

In 2018, the theatre company Told By An Idiot and the Barbican Centre collaborated to organise an improvisational experiment performance workshop “Let Me Play The Lion Too”. In an intensive two weeks, a group of 12 performers six of whom have a disability, work together to devise new improvised evenings of anarchic spontaneity. the project aims to tackle the lack of diversity of the British theatre.

This year from 22nd to 26th October, the workshop “Let Me Play The Lion Too” was presented to the Beijing Inside-Out Theatre. Collaborated with local participants of 14 performers, seven of whom have a disability, work together to discover their unique artistic expressions. It is also a valuable opportunity to engage in barrier-free art for local performance theatres. – Planned, curated, coordinated and managed the workshop with our partner organisations and artists in UK and in China.

Worked alongside with the British Council China in organising this accessible theatre workshop with the Beijing Inside-Out Theatre. We engaged the British deaf artist Bea Webster and the founder of PANTHEA Carl de Poncins to share their idea of how to make theatre more accessible.

Bea Webster is a deaf Glasgow based actor & theatre-maker and is one of the few deaf actors who are active and have a place in the British theatre world. Carl de Poncins is the founder and CEO of the Panthea Company (France). Panthea Company developed the smart glasses for performance accessibility, to display the subtitles on the glasses simultaneously in a selectable language for audiences, this solution not only make theatre audiences can overcome the language barriers, but also open more possibilities for people with disability to enjoy the theatre experience.

This workshop aims to tackle the lack of diversity of the theatre and bring the theatre experience into the lives of people with disabilities. Also, it is a valuable opportunity to share achievements in this field to the Chinese theatres and audiences.