Theatre reviews: Strange Tales, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh | Cinderfella, Tron Theatre, Glasgow
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IF PANTOMIME is not your cup of Chinese tea – or if you just feel like a change of festive pace – then you may find some real balm for the soul in the Traverse’s latest show for the Christmas season. Co-produced with Edinburgh’s Grid Iron company, and inspired by the stories of 17th century Chinese writer Pu Songling, Strange Tales offers a spectacular theatrical retelling of just eight of his many hundreds of tales; stories as familiar in Chinese culture as classic fairytales are in the west, celebrated in the equivalent of Disney films, and still told by parents and grandparents to each new generation of children.