Late at night, high up in the C Chambers street, a little bit of magic is unfolding in this beautiful small scale show imported from the Far East as part of the showcase programme Made in Macau. Originally created for bookshops, this corner room is dolled with piles and shelves of books and illuminated only by built-in lamps that create coloured shadow shapes and draw our eyes toward miniature features like a string of tiny post it notes.

In the centre of the room a young man is sitting, restlessly at his desk. He is, we learn, a poet and struggling to write, staring disconsolately into space, occasionally scrunching up his efforts. Fortunately his environment bristles with morsels of possible inspiration. It is animated by the second performer, masked head to toe in black like a puppetry ninja, her body stretching into shapes that reflect and amplify his interior worlds. Her presence could easily feel naive in the small space, even awkward. But from the off, the company are already subverting the form – keeping the performance moving forward and transforming.

The show embodies the classic object theatre impulse of finding the poetry in the everyday. First, his anguish emerges in her contortions and then, by successive drips, inspiration appears, drawn from the literature that surrounds him, the architecture of the room we share, the world echoing up for the street below. The young woman unmasks and speaks directly to us, narrating his world and ours. Her translation is occasionally a little stilted but there is enough information and poetry to net together the myriad moments of object storytelling that make up the performance. As interlocutor she playfully offers animated provocations using a delicate miniature theatre – a tiny show, a toy car, a lighthouse bringing to life the many drama real and imagined that multiply in the room.

This is a delicate and rather lovely show in its late night slot and is presented with subtle confidence in unusual form rarely encountered in British theatre and with heartfelt style. A little gem.