Pu Songling: Strange Tales
Jan 13th - Feb 1st 2026
at Crow's Theatre
Enter the spellbinding world of Pu Songling, the visionary writer whose tales of the supernatural have captivated audiences for centuries. Now, in a striking new adaptation, we bring these timeless fables to life.
By turns whimsical and spine-tingling, this dynamic production captures the spirit of a literary master whose work touches on timeless themes that bind us across generations.
Pu Songling: Strange Tales reaffirms our love of fearless, boundary-pushing storytelling — where theatricality reigns and the extraordinary occurs in every moment.
The Cast
John Ng
Diana Tso
The Director
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.
-Michele Smith, Director
