About My Parents and Their Child

Using the documentary theatre production About My Parents and Their Child performed in Beijing in 2016 and Shanghai in 2017 as a case study, this chapter examines how creative individuals and theatre groups in China use the techniques of intermediality and transmedia storytelling to explore critical social issues such as LGBTQ rights, historical trauma, in addition to inter-generational and cross-cultural communication. It showcases the potential of non-linear, de-centred, post-dramatic and open-ended forms of storytelling in queer performance. I argue that transmedia storytelling can function as an important form of communication that brings people together to engage in critical dialogues, and thus contributes to the construction of a queer public sphere in China.