No Fit State Circus
0 0000 - 31 May 2008
Price(s): £15 / Matinee £10. Contact No Fit State Circus for group (15 or more) and online bookings.
Paradise Gardens Festival presents No Fit State Circus - Tabú - Standing on the Edge of the Wilderness.
"Cirque Du Soleil without the Disney and the disinfectant... this is the future of British Circus."
The Guardian
Founded 21 years ago, award winning, critically acclaimed NoFit State Circus is the UK's flagship "new circus" troupe and one of the more user-friendly companies of its kind. That generosity of spirit pervades Tabú, a vividly entertaining and tumultuous new promenade production that springs off the back of Gabriel García Marquéz's One Hundred Years of Solitude. Their last production Immortal achieved cult status on the European circus circuit and won prestigious awards at several international festivals.
Combining cutting edge circus, performance, live music, and video the audience enter the giant silver spaceship big top and become immersed in a promenade circus event taking place above around and amongst the audience in an explosion of furious fun and choreographed mayhem.
Tabú poses the question: why is it that humans choose the dark side? Or is it the dark side that chooses us? Tabú is a new journey and exploration into the darker side of being. It isn't a freak show, it isn't voyeurism. It is the tissue we are made of and which like death itself, we cannot fully grasp, let alone explain Leave your circus preconceptions behind and join us for a turbo charged, ninety-minute, life changing roller coaster ride.
Show dates and times
Tabú is suitable for adults and children over the age of 12 and shows last 2 hours including an interval. Please arrive 15 minutes before the publicised performance time.
Friday 23rd - 7pm
Saturday 24th 2.30pm matinee 8pm evening
Sunday 25th 5pm
Monday 26th 4pm
Tuesday 27th DAY OFF
Wednesday 28th 8pm
Thursday 29th 8pm
Friday 30th 8pm
Saturday 31st 2.30pm matinee and 8pm evening
For full Paradise Gardens Festival listings go to http://www.paradisegardens.org.uk/
For enquires regarding access please call Ash on 020 86911372 or email
Tabú is funded by Art Councils of England and Wales and the PRS Foundation and is aco-comission with Norfolk and Norwich Festival 08
NoFit State Circus is an ensemble based Circus and as such the team is all important. This year many of the NoFit State family are on tour again, but as always we have a few new faces who bring with them new skills and surprises.
Tickets are available from Hackney Empire Box Office by telephone only
Tel: 0208 985 2424. To book online go to http://www.nofitstate.org
Advance sales are subject to a booking fee.
Dates and Times
| Date | Time | Book |
|---|---|---|
| Friday 23 May 2008 | 7:00 pm | |
| Saturday 24 May 2008 | 2:30 pm | |
| Saturday 24 May 2008 | 8:00 pm | |
| Sunday 25 May 2008 | 5:00 pm | |
| Monday 26 May 2008 | 4:00 pm | |
| Wednesday 28 May 2008 | 8:00 pm | |
| Thursday 29 May 2008 | 8:00 pm | |
| Friday 30 May 2008 | 8:00 pm | |
| Saturday 31 May 2008 | 2:30 pm | |
| Saturday 31 May 2008 | 8:00 pm |
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Reviews
"No Fit's latest spectacle, directed by Firenza Guidi, is like dropping in on a wild party thrown by strangers, and emerging two hours later having begun to establish a peculiar but intoxicating kinship with your hosts. "
The Times
"Cirque Du Soleil without the Disney and the disinfectant… this is the future of British Circus."
The Guardian