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Directors: Anthony Anderson, Paul Archer & John Haze Reviewer: Sue Dixon The Public Reviews Rating: The first thing to say about this is – at least circuses have improved since the sinister, baggy-trousered clowns that used to give children nightmares. The Moscow State Circus, which is based on 200 years of tradition, has had to adapt its routine [...]

Writer/Director: Robert Lepage Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: Totem – Robert Le Page’s second production for the worlds biggest circus outfit Cirque du Soliel, returns for another month long residency following last years sell out season. As with all Cirque du Soliel productions, Totem has a loose frame work or story in which all its acts [...]

Created by: Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble Artistic Director: Yaron Lifschitz Associate Director: Ben Knapton Reviewer: Lucy Kirkwood The Public Reviews Rating: Contemporary circus as a genre has seen an unprecedented rise in its popularity since the 1980s. Cirque du Soliel’s annual income is estimated to be a staggering $810 million and dozens of new acts battle [...]

The Public Reviews Rating: Reviewer: Rosie Revell The show that took Britain’s Got Talent by storm earlier this year rolled into Bradford last night. Now in its sixteenth year The Circus of Horrors is certainly unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Set in a cabaret club in 1920’s Berlin, the show itself is certainly entertaining, occasionally disturbing and [...]

Creator: Slava Polunin Producers: Matthew Gale, Jenny King, Mark Goucher Reviewer: Edie R The Public Reviews Rating: “The child’s laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.” Thus spake Angela Carter in 1984, and I wouldn’t usually disagree. But ‘Slava’s Snowshow’, might have struck her as an exception to her own rule. In the course of [...]

Creator: Slava Polunin Reviewer: Marina Spark The Public Reviews Rating: I walked into a different world when I entered The Mayflower Theatre in Southampton to see ‘Slava’s Snowshow’; the theatre was covered in paper snow, the stage cosily wrapped by blanketed walls and the air filled with a buzz of excitement that was tangible. The audience consisted of [...]

Director: Zhang Wan Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Producer Stephen Leatherland was inspired to create Cirque Du Ciel after seeing Cirque Du Soleil in London and Las Vegas. The re-imagining of traditional circus forms combining acrobatics, modern dance, martial arts and other Chinese elements, has been a feature of recent years, proving that there is still [...]

Story: Stan Berkowitz, Alan Burnett & Allan Heinberg Creative Director: Anthony Van Laast Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: This multi-million pound production is a no expense spared affair and the credit list reads more like a Hollywood movie than a traditional theatre production, with a cast of nearly 50 Actors/Acrobats, and a technical team of over [...]