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 political allegory with shades of noir which focuses on new media, controlled by the government and large corporations, Wild boar, written in 2011 for the Hong Kong Arts Festival, staged and awarded in 2012, takes on the theme of the auto-censorship and frenetic urban development of contemporary metropolises. In an undefined megalopolis which very vaguely recalls Hong Kong, two independent journalists find themselves investigating the suspicious disappearance of an important historian and intellectual of the city: the search for proof of the murder of the man, a rare example of moral integrity and civil action, will lead them to the uncovering of clandestine government plans for urban 'renewal', in reality the harbinger of deep cuts in the urban fabric.

Candance Chong Mui-ngam (1977) has received various awards: Best Artist Award for theatre from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, four times the Hong Kong Drama Award for the best script. Her work has been translated and staged, among other locations, in Tokyo, Macao, Singapore and Shanghai. She has been conferred the title of Asian Cultural Council Fellow and spent a year in the United States perfecting her writing and collaborating with the Tony Award winner and Pulitzer Prize nominee Henry Hwang.