Welcome to The Empire. The circus freak-show is about to begin – but wait, the owner, Charlie, has just been killed. Whodunnit? ‘Why Charlie, why?” the characters sing in unison, setting the tone for an evening of  riotous and jolly vaudevillian (as well as vaudevillain!) music-theatre. Les Vaudevillains is the new ensemble piece – delivered […]

‘I am Natalie and I like to do handstands. When I do a handstand  I feel strong and straight as a rocket. When I do handstands people notice me.’ This is a show that features Natalie Reckert doing an endless number of handstands and hand-balances on canes, and is almost exclusively about Natalie doing handstands […]

A phone rings; a warning to turn off our mobiles. Lights. Low, moody lights. Three bodies – two male and one female, in minimal sporty underwear; fit and honed bodies – are curled up on the floor. There is some flexing and contorting of their back and shoulder muscles, a bit of writhing and twitching. […]

It’s 10pm at Underbelly’s Circus Hub, and the audience are primed for a sassy show after huddling together in the windy outside bar, before filing into the sold-out big top. Head First Acrobats – Thomas Gorham, Cal Harris and Rowan Thomas – provide just what is needed as they bamboozle viewers with a show tightly […]

When we see three workers really engaged with the physical actions of their job,  we can see how inventive people can be. It’s depends on their capacity to treat every action in their day-by-day life work with humour and creativity. The three Trash Test Dummies performers, in the guise of rubbish collectors, show with great ability how […]