Circus City: The Outsider Edition

We are excited to be returning with a new three week international festival of contemporary circus.

We have called this year The Outsider Edition as this constellation of shows  explores a common thread of human-object relations, transformation and interventions into the way people, bodies and situations can be seen and navigated. Each presents an opportunity for a reimagining of the familiar, human, scientific, physical, seen in a new light, as if with the eyes of an outsider.

Aside from this common thread, this festival is as varied as ever with everything from research-driven performance-making (Darragh McCloughlin’s Stickman, Tom Cassani’s A Show of Hands & Iterations) and striking queer and neurodiverse and black led solo shows (Laura Murphy’s A Spectacle of Herself, Livia Kojo Alour’s Black Sheep), to pink punk gig-circus (Muovipussi’s Noise Juice), mind-bending physical storytelling and spectacle (Sawdust Symphony, Andrea Salustri’s Materia, Marina Cherry’s Only Bones) and retellings of classical literature (Ockham’s Razor’s Tess). There are shows for young people and families with fire, music and mayhem (Tit For Tat’s BOOKS!, Whispering Woods & the Murmuration Choir’s The Shape of Belonging and Oh No George!) and presentations of brand new work in the making (Volt, Ruby & Charles) alongside a programme of workshops, talks, films and industry events.

We are really proud of this programme and can’t wait to share it with you.

– Nicole A’Court Stuart, Artistic Director

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