Following the success of "Il Teatro delle Regione (Regional Theatre)" (21 – 26 July), the Tramedautore Festival returns for its traditional international September appointment, this year dedicated to China and its grand transformations.

The review will host eight productions by established and up-and-coming Chinese artists, who through their various styles tell of urban life in the Chinese megalopolises of Beijing, Shanghai, Nanking and Hong Kong: Cent'anni di architettura cinese (11 and 12 September, a play in original language with surtitles); Fake Single (13 September); Leave before getting old (15 September); Contratto matrimoniale (16 September); Wildboar - Il cinghiale  (17 September); La Fuga (18 September); Cinglish - Cinglese  (19 September); Carbone attivo (20 September).

Alongside the performances there will be opportunities to meet the artists, conferences on the themes of the review and film screenings. Click here for the programme.

In collaboration with Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office – Brussels, Eric C. Yim, Ronald Lu & Partners -呂元祥建築師事務 – The Italian Institute of Culture Beijing, Istituto Confucio dell’Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione Italia – Cina, O barra O Edizioni, The Chinese theatre workshop of the Università "L'Orientale", Naples, created by the sinologist Maria Cristina Pisciotta.

A poetic and reflective work, inspired by real events experienced by a close friend of the author, who at the age of 30 decided to radically change his life, to the point of experiencing a simpler but incredibly richer existence. The atmosphere of this work may, for Italian audiences, recall extracts from Tiziano Terzani's Un altro giro di giostra (one more ride on the merry-go-round).

The play has met with great success in China and has been performed more than 200 times.

Shao Zehui. (1977) After having abandoned a promising career in the field of new technology, he received important recognition for his work in dramatic arts. In 2008 he was part of the directing committee of the Beijing Fringe Festival and wrote and directed Leave before getting old, followed in 2009 by the drama The Sun.

He is the director of the Beijing Young Dramatists Association and participated in the organisation of the Beijing Fringe Festival. He was the youngest writer to be involved by the South Korea Association in the Asian Directors' Art Festival in Seoul (for which he directed Brecht's Fear and misery of the Third Reich). He was invited to the Avignon off Festival in 2011 with his play 1988, I want to talk with the world, and in 2014 for the dance performance Sleep & Awake. The critics define him as one of Asia's most promising writers and directors.