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A contemporary dance-theatre adaptation of Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio, Pu Songling's celebrated 17th-century Chinese ghost-story collection. In a dreamlike nocturnal world where humans, foxes and spirits intertwine, desire swells, collisions unfold, and the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to dissolve. Through haunting choreography, visual storytelling and surreal theatrical imagery, the production reimagines this ghostly literary universe as a sensuous and psychologically layered exploration of greed, violence, obsession and the shifting line between the human and the…
This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Strange Tales from Liaozhai is by Yuerge Dance Theatre / Shanghai International Dance Center Theater, listed under Dance Physical Theatre and Circus in the Fringe programme. It plays at ZOO Southside, 117 Nicolson Street, EH8 9ER, 8 August to 15 August.
The show runs 60 minutes and is suitable for ages 12+. Tickets from £19.