It’s one of my all time favourite books – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – and it was coming to Shanghai Culture Square in the form of a play from the National Theatre. I couldn’t NOT go.
I paid my £40 for a ticket for the Saturday matinee and the whole place was full, mainly of high school children! The play itself was fantastic, the lighting, the sound, the staging, the performers were all top drawer.
It says a lot about the quality of the show that there was nobody that I could see using their mobile phones which was a first for me.
The most curious thing was not the incident of the dog in the night-time though, it was the reaction of the audience at various points in the play. In parts when it was meant to be thought-provoking, the audience laughed and they clapped when the puppy came on. 
They laughed at the most unusual things, things that weren’t even supposed to be amusing. Of course, some of the verbal jokes were lost on the Chinese audience and only the handful of foreigners in the place laughed.
It was like an audience of two halves.