Pu Songling
"The Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio"
On December 23, 2023 and March 30 2024 we held workshop presentations of our latest creation, an adaptation of the great Chinese writer Pu Songling's short stories "The Strange Tales from the Liaozhai Studio".
We're very excited to start this new project with a strong team of collaborators (pictured below);
Diana Tso,
John Ng, Jovanni Sy,
Rosie Simon
and
Jeff Yung. During these workshop periods we worked together to move these stories from the page to the rehearsal space.
The world of Pu Songling is mysterious and magical: fox spirits get married to humans and have children, a young man and the ghost of a young woman, who died long ago, meet and fall in love; a man remembers his past lives as a horse, a dog and a snake; after an earthquake people stand around on the ruined streets, talking frantically with no clothes on.
At the heart of these stories is the imagination of the travelling storyteller. These stories walked from village to village hundreds of years ago, in China, and Pu Songling captured them and wrote them down.
Now we have the good fortune to tell them again.