Sunday 29 August 2010
The Circus of Horrors: Celebrating 15 Bloody Years With The Four Chapters from Hell
Following on on the huge success of their shows The Asylum, & The Day of the Dead, The Circus of Horrors has had a major revamp & is back rockin" & shockin" with special brand new show created especially to celebrate its 15th bloody year.
The Circus of Horrors has been active for a staggering 15 years since it first trampled the bloody boards, it has since toured relentlessly around the world achieving cult status, generally dragging circus screaming and shouting into the 21st century and beyond.
The new show The Four Chapters from Hell will take you on a journey though all four of the Circus of Horrors incarnations, beginning in a French Asylum where the inmates are liberated and become the performers in the show.
After killing their leader, filled with remorse they move across to Mexico to try & revive him in the Day of the Dead celebrations.
The show then moves into Victorian London, it is the late 1890"s and the Freak Show has come to town, a young girl Ragen born in the Asylum, is woken from her deep sleep and runs away to join the circus before she is sacrificed by the evil & undead Dr Haze and fed to the vampires.
But Vampires never die and the final twist to the story takes us into the future, and into 2020, a futuristic vision of mad max style civilization inhabited by Vampires, Zombies and the Undead. Regan now also undead seeks revenge on her evil slayer, all of course to disastrous consequences.
The show contains some of the greatest, most bizarre & beautiful Circus acts on earth.
From dare devil flying trapeze to a vampiric crow woman suspended only by her hair, from whirlwind roller skaters to sword swallowers.
All this plus pickled & bendy people, voodoo warriors, knife throwers and an almighty cast of 26 of the wildest, weirdest but most of all greatest performers on earth.
This is without a doubt a musical masterpiece with the help of the devil driven rock 'n' roll of Dr Haze & the interceptors from hell.
Imagine if Quinton Tarantino had directed Cirque Du Soliel then you would be only half way there.
Circus of Horrors plays Crawley Hawth Theatre on Friday 14th January and Theatre Royal Brighton on Wednesday 19th January. See www.circusofhorrors.co.uk for more details.
by: Mike Cobley
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