Shanghai

Sculptor goes solo

Zheng Baocheng is presenting a solo exhibition of more than 20 sculptures. Zheng is a master craftsman of boxwood carving, a traditional art in Zhejiang province. Besides inheriting the traditional styles, Zheng has adopted modern aesthetics in his creations. He has gone further to work with rock, bronze and glass sculpture, as well as ink and watercolor paintings. Zheng has turned to contemporary art and created in recent years a series of works about consumerism and materialism.

10 am-6 pm, until Sept 10. Duolun Museum of Modern Art, 27 Duolun Road, Hongkou district, Shanghai. 021-5609-5728.

Primitive production

Rob Becker's one-person play Defending the Caveman will be presented in Chinese. The antagonism between two sexes has accompanied the whole civilization process. The play illustrates the difference between men and women with examples in modern daily life, and traces the sexual conflicts back to the primitive age, when men hunted and women collected. Xu Shengnan will be on stage leading his one-man battle defending the "cavemen". The play is the maiden work of director Xie Shuai.

7:30 pm, Tuesday-Saturday; 2 pm, Saturday-Sunday, Aug 23-Sept 22. Theater Salon-Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, 3F, 288 Anfu Road Shanghai. 021-6473-0123.

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