Valley Artists

Date: 2005
Category: Performances

Circus of Life takes a spectacular look at the ups and downs of living in this world. This animal-free event is designed for a mature audience with the intimate ring setting giving Valley Artists a unique opportunity to present a magical revue of life behind the Big Top.  Circus of Life combines original sketches, live music, spectacular theatrical performances, creative lighting, abstract settings, exotic costumes and makeup.

The Circus of Life takes you on a journey with a mixed bag of characters at a junction in their lives where they are forced, by circumstances, to change and adapt into a different world: the world of the circus. Some love the challenges and develop personally in their new environment. Others hate where they are and want out but in their leaving, know where their true place in the world is.

Right here in our own Big Top at Laguna Hall, right before your very eyes, you will experience a fabulous array of acts assembled for your delight, deliberation and delectation. Admire our astonishing aerialists, behold our brilliant balancers, cheer our clever clowns, enjoy our jovial jugglers, and marvel at our marvellous magicians, while, at the same time, being aware that life itself can be a circus.... The circus that is life!

Reviews

You didn't go? All sold out before you tried to make a booking? Maybe you did go and wanted to check on what other people thought about it?

Remember the gorgeous Gypsy dancer clacking well enough to make you think about the Romany Way? Laguna Hall had, officially, become a circus tent aptly, cleverly and brilliantly decorated. You entered the circus to savour the Ringmaster's troupe. Other life was elsewhere as the Valley Artists took your soul. Stealing your heart was the luscious Lulu -the ring master's assistant, borrowing your ears was that funny cool band with the extraordinary back stage team with all those switches, sounds and buttons much smarter than the average circus Bear but the Racos (the Wollombi Oscar) should go to the set designers and to whoever arranged those costumes and who did write that glorious music?

The man on stilts started the show lifting us all from the floor and then the metaphors flowed and the similes clashed and the alliterations were adjudicated by the laughs.

Clever, warm, intelligent and thoughtful energetic and smart. Original too- brave as well and who said it needed an editor?

In any town anywhere this is a winning show and what a cast! Super star Ross was more than a little nuts. The Freudian lion, escaping fleas, the cleaner who becomes the velveteen goddess of trapeze, acrobatic children and the coffin bound funereal clown, and the savage unseen dog made up the kaleidoscope of colour character and charm and horror which is the Circus of Life.

Like all great circus shows there was a fool. If you were not there dear reader that was you. The show was terrific the night a delight and where were you? Please do not be another clown and book early for the Valley Artist's next performance.

Gareth St.John Thomas