A Wildwood production for family audiences aged 5 and above, this BDE performance is a taster of the full production.
Did you ever want to join the circus but not want to run away? When she’s told her dreams of flying on the trapeze are ridiculous, Su finds herself sad and alone at home. On one magical night her furniture takes pity on her and gradually comes to life, enabling her to achieve her dream in the most unexpected fashion.
Sitting Room Circus combines dance theatre and puppetry – specially created furniture transforms from domestic fixture to fantastical creature.
A recorded score combines original piano composition by Paul Englishby and re-scored versions of well-known classical works – Beethoven for the ferocious sofa, Saint–Saëns for the flying scatter cushions, Bach for the balancing dining chairs… This is an informative but also humorous look at some of classical music’s ‘greats’ seen in a different light, and will be a perfect introduction to musically based choreography for all the family.
With design by Jon Bausor and puppets devised by Mervyn Millar (both of whom collaborated on Will Tuckett’s Thief of Baghdad) this will be a visually exciting and innovative production with puppetry based on the traditional bunraku style but adapted to incorporate a strong dance element.
The finished production will run with no interval at 55-70 minutes and be designed to play small to mid-scale venues. At the end of each performance the audience gets the chance to ‘meet’ the puppets and cast in an informal way. As well as the full production Wildwood will also be able to deliver dance workshops (including puppet, character and narrative) for both children and adults that include, and are led by, the dancers in either a theatre or school environment
