For fans of avant and confrontational theater — and, really, who isn't, like, c'mon, that's just spice of life stuff — Ghent-based theater collective Ontroerend Goed is in Shanghai with not one but two shows that assail traditional ideas of theater, stage craft, the dichotomy of audience / performer, narrative, experience, truth, self, God, reality, everything, you get the idea!

With rave reviews in The Guardian, The New York Times, La Liberation, and more, the Belgian provocateurs bring the "dark stage" to Shanghai. In town and currently showing are two different "one-on-one theater" pieces and two different opportunities to have your preconceived notions of stuff absolutely shattered.

Originally created by Gent-based theatre company Ontroerend Goed, these Shanghai versions are co-produced by Shanghai Culture Square, Tempest Projects and Fairchild Productions.

(We're guessing they excised the reported nudity...)

Check out 'The Smile Off Your Face':

This one won massive acclaim at the Fringe Festival in Scotland in 2019. From the review in The Scotsman, it really does sound like a THING:

Huh! Tied to a wheelchair and smelling the best show at Fringe!

Check out the other production, 'A Game of You':

Mysterious! Says The Guardian in a 2010 review:

"A Game of You [offers] a gentler but no less disorientating experience. It's like getting the opportunity to spy upon yourself, and with its series of curtained spaces and mirrors, it's a little bit like a peep show in which you are both the voyeur and the object. You find yourself subject to others' merciless gaze, but there is none more indecent than your own."

Well!

How ‘bout it.

In for an experience?

Get your tickets to the shows right here:

One-on-One Theatre: ‘The Smile Off Your Face' has an English version show every Tuesday at 8pm. Tickets are available through SmartShanghai here.

One-on-One Theater: 'A Game of You' also has an English version on Tuesdays at 4pm. Tickets are available through SmartShanghai here.