Number
7 - 12th August 2000
Cirque du
Soleil's Quidam
opens in London on December 15th playing through to January 7th 2001. "This show highlights our frailties and our anguish in the face of the new millennium that lies before us. It also underlines differences, conveying positive feelings and resentment and confronting our dreams with our nightmares. Quidam is a more scripted
than previous productions; it integrates performance and theatricality to a greater degree, and draws on the emotional relationships between the performers in the troupe."
The new troupe is made up of over 50 performers, ranging in age from
12 to 50, hailing from the four corners of the globe: Canada, United States, France, Russia, Ukraine, China,
Sweden, Israel and England.
Quidam set design is said to be stunning. One of the production's most spectacular
features is a 120-foot overhead conveyor, whose five imposing rails take up the entire interior surface of
the Big Top. This system will be used to bring performers onto the stage and
to create a multitude of special effects with the various acts.
High-calibre acrobatic performance goes hand-in-hand with the magnificent beauty of the
aerial, high-flying, balancing and manipulation acts. In store for spectators are the German wheel, banquine, Spanish webs, diabolo
and aerial contortion. Also on the program, a hell-raising trio of crazy clowns who take
cruelty to the limits while lending a touch of purity, poetry and tenderness to the show.
Although not featuring any magic acts as such Cirque du Soleil productions are always spectacular inspirational affairs - if you love performance then you'll thoroughly enjoy the work of Cirque du Soleil. 12.8.00
Wayne
Dobson is the Special Guest in the Black and White Minstrel Show every
Monday throughout August at the Futurist Theatre, Scarborough. Then Wayne
goes on tour in the Autumn with his own show featuring special guest act
Illusionists Safire (with more planned for the Spring). If you've
only ever seen Wayne on TV do try and see him live.
A brilliant performer and a very funny man!
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London's Black Cabs
are famous the world over - look out for Marvin's Magic Taxi, on location
all over London. It has the Marvin's Magic logo on the doors, bonnet and
roof, so you'll know it if you see it!
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"The one person we knew we had to see was Jerry Sadowitz! He was amazing!" read the full report from Mandy Davis in Reviews or click: Magic at the Edinburgh Fringe 2000 12.8.00
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