Glastonbury's great this year - among other things already booked,
- Hugh Jart are building a vast Dublenge (a replica of stonehange built from 24 VW beatles), which will be the centre to a massive interactive puzzle maze. In which....
- Kiss My Axe presents Carmageddon (Road movie meets circus with screw loose). Performance includes: Tanzanian acrobats, sword/chainsaw fighting, Carcass the skeleton trike and other mad vehicles, Hovercraft manned by aliens, fire/pole swinging, Melvin Cheddar and a special guest appearance by Swampy (who'll be bringing his own tunnel). All this will be happening each night at 11.45pm, lasting 45mins....insane soundtrack, tons of pyros.....
- There will also be an 80 foot painting screen to record the people and events of the festival...
- Tout Feu Tout Fly (the lovely trapeze troupe) are coming again with a new show. Heir of Insanity will be there on the 27th. The Gandini Project will be presenting Septet on each day of the festival and Sean and Kati will be leading masterclasses. John Stamp, and Florence Chervel are amongst the jugglers. There's also Paka the Incredible, Foolhardy Folk, Swamp Circus, trapeze workshops and masses of juggling workshops.
- Stage Fright (aerial theatre performance) will be putting up their 33' trapeze rig and performing as follows:
- Friday Night (after dark): Our main show "A Trick of the Tail" (trapeze and mime).
- Saturday: Bongo Bolero (juggling and acrobalance) twice in the big top, and Romeo and Juliet (trapeze and corde-lisse)
- Sunday: High (trapeze)
Check our our site for more details of the shows - http://www.stagefright.org.
- On the Sunday, there will be an attempt to beat the Guiness Record for 3-ball juggling.
More details to be hear soon.....in the meantime f you know more about what's on in the Circus Field, or my spelling needs correcting, please email me at festivals@juggling.org .... many thanks.
For things happening in the other bits of the festival, check out this site for more info (it also has a links page for further links....).