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meteordust) wrote2023-12-30 11:50 pm
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The Insect Circus
Still catching up on posts I've been meaning to make.
Back in January, during the Sydney Festival, I went to see The Insect Circus at the Seymour Centre.
This was a puppet show by the String Theatre from London, featuring insects performing in a circus.
For some reason, I was expecting giant insects, like the puppets on Farscape or something. But the show didn't use the whole stage, but its own special stage, about 1 metre tall by 2 metres wide, and the insects were appropriately sized for that. I guess they still count as "giant insects" if they're 20 centimetres instead of 2 metres?
The puppets were marionettes, operated by strings and sticks, and very beautifully detailed, with multiple moving parts. The show consisted of a series of circus acts (eg trapeze, juggling, acrobatics) by various insect performers (eg ants, beetles, grasshoppers). It was very charming, and woven with suspense and humour.
Halfway through the show, a tiny child wandered down the aisle and stood in front of the stage, staring mesmerised at the puppets. An usher hovered nearby, probably to intervene if she decided to grab the puppets. Fortunately, that didn't happen. I wonder if it's a common hazard at puppet shows for kids?
The weevil act from The Insect Circus:
Back in January, during the Sydney Festival, I went to see The Insect Circus at the Seymour Centre.
This was a puppet show by the String Theatre from London, featuring insects performing in a circus.
For some reason, I was expecting giant insects, like the puppets on Farscape or something. But the show didn't use the whole stage, but its own special stage, about 1 metre tall by 2 metres wide, and the insects were appropriately sized for that. I guess they still count as "giant insects" if they're 20 centimetres instead of 2 metres?
The puppets were marionettes, operated by strings and sticks, and very beautifully detailed, with multiple moving parts. The show consisted of a series of circus acts (eg trapeze, juggling, acrobatics) by various insect performers (eg ants, beetles, grasshoppers). It was very charming, and woven with suspense and humour.
Halfway through the show, a tiny child wandered down the aisle and stood in front of the stage, staring mesmerised at the puppets. An usher hovered nearby, probably to intervene if she decided to grab the puppets. Fortunately, that didn't happen. I wonder if it's a common hazard at puppet shows for kids?
The weevil act from The Insect Circus: