Across these 13 productions, some are primarily in Chinese (including its various linguistic branches), while others weave Chinese together with other languages. Themes include intimate relationships, migrant life, feminism and identity, with works also drawing on folklore, mental health and absurd comedy.
Productions are listed by first performance, with language, schedule and content information. All dates and times are local to London in November 2026.
Keep Calm and Bring Back the Cricket!
Einherjar Productions / Cameron Krogh Stone sets this multilingual solo comedy against an absurd world war and a singular mission to recover the Cricket World Cup. As the protagonist moves beyond an English-speaking environment, French, Chinese, Norwegian and other languages enter the performance, with linguistic shifts becoming part of its comic machinery.
Etcetera Theatre
3 November, 3pm; 4 November, 7pm; 5 November, 9pm
45 minutes · Age guidance: 12+ · £12.50 / concessions £10
Company / artist: Einherjar Productions / Cameron Krogh Stone
Languages: English, French, Chinese (including its various linguistic branches), Norwegian, Spanish, Urdu and Zulu. Chinese is one element of the multilingual performance, rather than its principal language.
Content notes: Flashing lights and sudden loud noises.
Wind Me Up
Man Yun Ku builds the solo work around the image of a “human music box”, combining live violin, physical performance and audience interaction. Dialogue is not the only vehicle for communication: sound, movement and the live relationship with the audience carry equal weight.
Barons Court Theatre
3 November, 5:30pm; 4 November, 5:30pm; 5 November, 5:30pm
60 minutes · Age guidance: 14+ · £15 / concessions £10
Company / artist: Man Yun Ku
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches), English and non-verbal performance.
Content notes: Audience interaction, live music and loud sounds.
BLONDIE BLUE EYES
Romeo Lau combines slapstick, physical performance and drag in a satire on race, beauty standards and cultural identity. The central tension lies between the pursuit of a white beauty ideal and the self that pursuit attempts to reshape.
Canal Cafe Theatre
4 November, 7:30pm; 9 November, 7:30pm; 10 November, 7:30pm
50 minutes · Age guidance: 16+ · £12 / concessions £10
Company / artist: Romeo Lau
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches), English, Japanese and Korean.
Content notes: Racism towards East and Southeast Asian communities and implied slurs; physical harm, violence, cannibalistic imagery and strong language. Audience participation is a particular feature.
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Rabbit Hole Ensemble places a cross-cultural relationship on the brink of marriage under sustained pressure. Questions of identity, unresolved history and mutual understanding accumulate within the couple’s arguments, turning a private relationship into the work’s principal dramatic terrain.
The Cockpit
5 November, 7pm
60 minutes · Age guidance: 18+ · £15
Company / artist: Rabbit Hole Ensemble
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches) and English.
Content notes: Depictions of kink and violent sexual activity, racial and cultural microaggressions, body shaming and mental health themes.
(M)Others Between Shores
Developed through research and community collaboration, Resonant Shore Theatre CIC centres the experiences of migrant mothers. Movement, puppetry, sound and multilingual storytelling trace the practical realities of care, adaptation and making a home in a new place.
The Playground Theatre
5 November, 9pm; 6 November, 7:30pm
60 minutes · All ages (as listed) · £16 / concessions £14
Company / artist: Resonant Shore Theatre CIC
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches) and English. The listing notes that no knowledge of the Chinese used in the performance is needed to follow it.
Content notes: No specific content notes are listed.
The Radical Wedding Engine
Ensemble Not Found dismantles wedding etiquette, dress and ritual and rebuilds them as participatory performance, combining clowning, audiovisual elements and audience games. Presented as a work in development, the piece also makes the audience’s response part of its ongoing creative process.
The Cockpit
7 November, 5pm; 8 November, 7pm
50 minutes · Age guidance: 14+ · £15
Company / artist: Ensemble Not Found
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches) and English.
Content notes: Participatory games; no other specific content notes are listed.
Do You Know Where To Go From Here?
Stephanie Renae Lau uses the act of sorting through clothes to bring loss, relationships, family, faith and migration into the same space. The solo dark comedy turns domestic disorder into a frame for a larger question: how to recover direction when a life no longer feels ordered.
The Space Theatre
8 November, 5:30pm; 14 November, 7pm
60 minutes · Age guidance: 14+ · £16 / concessions £12
Company / artist: Stephanie Renae Lau
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches) and English.
Content notes: Loss, grief, mental health, police violence and references to death and suicide; audience participation, loud noises and flashing lights.
July 15th to …
Stephanie Chu combines physical theatre and personal storytelling to depict life with bipolar disorder and an ongoing process of healing. Changes in mood, memory and trauma are carried through the body, giving the piece a specific autobiographical structure.
Theatro Technis
11 November, 9pm
50 minutes · Age guidance: 12+ · £13 / concessions £11
Company / artist: Stephanie Chu
Languages: English and Chinese (including its various linguistic branches).
Content notes: Themes of trauma and references to death and grief.
LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains)
Xiaoyao Luo uses chains, masks, movement and multilingual text to give visible form to the social expectations placed on women. The work examines how external scrutiny can become self-surveillance, and what that means for agency, choice and freedom.
Etcetera Theatre
11 November, 9pm; 12 November, 7pm; 14 November, 5pm
50 minutes · Age guidance: 16+ · £12 / concessions £10
Company / artist: Xiaoyao Luo
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches) and English.
Content notes: Chains, masks, physical restraint, intense movement and strong language; themes of gender-based control, self-surveillance and emotional distress.
LAMENT OF THE WANDERING HEAD
Sun Son Theatre places a Southeast Asian flying-head legend alongside the experience of a Malaysian Chinese woman living in Taiwan. Live music and physical performance connect folklore with migration and collective memory, bringing an old story into a contemporary diasporic context.
Barons Court Theatre
12 November, 7:30pm; 13 November, 7:30pm; 14 November, 7:30pm
50 minutes · Age guidance: 12+ · £15 / concessions £10
Company / artist: Sun Son Theatre
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches), with English subtitles.
Content notes: Supernatural and folklore themes, migration and displacement, loud live percussion and atmospheric lighting.
The View
Chloe Shyan develops the piece through two strands: a young woman trying to tell an old tree she loves it in a language she does not speak fluently, and a scientist tracking endangered birds. Sound, images and physical performance form an experimental “theatrical nature documentary” about human and ecological connection, loneliness and the need to be understood.
The Space Theatre
12 November, 9pm; 21 November, 7pm
50 minutes · Age guidance: 12+ · £16 / concessions £12
Company / artist: Chloe Shyan
Languages: English and Chinese (including its various linguistic branches).
Content notes: Audience interaction, flashing lights and sudden loud noises.
The Café
Roccia Zhang and Jiho Park bring four people together in a small London café, where money, visas and uncertain futures shape the encounter. Chinese, English, Persian and Portuguese share the stage, framing the pressures of life away from home and the possibilities of brief solidarity.
Etcetera Theatre
16 November, 5pm; 17 November, 1pm; 17 November, 5pm
60 minutes · All ages (as listed) · £12 / concessions £10
Company / artist: Roccia Zhang, Jiho Park
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches), English, Persian and Portuguese.
Content notes: References to experiences of migration and emotional distress.
Between Worlds
Devised by Tiny Human Dramas from real stories within queer British Asian communities, the production follows Feng Long as he introduces a partner to the family. Coming out, intimacy and intergenerational communication converge in a single family encounter.
Barons Court Theatre
21 November, 5:30pm; 22 November, 5:30pm
50 minutes · Age guidance: 16+ · £15 / concessions £10
Company / artist: Tiny Human Dramas
Languages: Chinese (including its various linguistic branches) and English.
Content notes: Strong language and references to sex and homophobia.
Practical information
The proportion and variety of Chinese used differ across the 13 productions, and some listings simply state “Chinese”. Where language or surtitles are important to your visit, check the official listing or contact the company before booking.
Ticket prices, booking fees and the latest performance information are set out on the relevant booking pages.