CIRCUS

ON

CIRCA 2022

On by Circa follows eight strangers whose lives cross in the courtyard of an apartment block. Over the course of a single night they will fight, love, laugh and find moments of beauty and transcendence.

  • Created: Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble
    Director:Yaron Lifschitz
    Original Music : Jethro Woodward
    Lighting Designer: Paul Jackson
    Technical Director: Jason Organ
    Costume Designer: Libby McDonnell

    Image: Pia Johnson

THE LONG PIGS

WE3 2013 - 2023

In a surreal world that could have been created by Jean-Pierre Jeunet or Tim Burton, this very black comedy pushes the boundaries of physical theatre. Killer clowns dissect concepts of individuality and difference as they search for the one victim that has eluded them.. Spine tingling original theatre that is hilariously dark and frighteningly funny. Set in an rickety abattoir-shack, the Pigs are working hard on their latest obsession, to rid the world of every last red nose clown.

  • Devisors/Creators: Clare Bartholomew, Derek Ives-Plunkett & Nicci Wilks

    Devisor/Director: Susie Dee
    Composer: Jethro Woodward
    Set Design: Anna Tregloan
    Lighting DesignAndy Turner

    Performers: Clare Bartholomew, Mozes & Nicci Wilks

    2023 - Theatre Works
    2019 - Tandanya Theatre, Adelaide Fringe
    2015 – Seymour Centre, Everest Theatre, Sydney Arts Festival, Australia
    2014 – fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia
    2013 – La Mama, Melbourne

    Nomination – 2014 Green Room Award for Direction
    Nomination – 2014 Green Room Award for Ensemble
    Nomination – 204 Green Room Award for Set & Costume Design

DUCKPOND

CIRCA 2023

The world’s most romantic ballet is re-imagined as a circus spectacular, full of Circa’s signature physicality and shot through with cheeky humour and a thoroughly contemporary energy.

  • Created by Yaron Lifschitz with the Circa Ensemble

    Director: Yaron Lifschitz
    Composer and Sound Designer: Jethro Woodward
    Costume Designer: Libby McDonnell
    Head of Wardrobe: Anna Handford
    Lighting Designer: Alexander Berlage
    Associate Director: Marty Evans
    Dramaturg and Associate Choreographer: Rani Luther
    Voice Over Artist: Elise Greig


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ETERNITY

CIRCA | BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2023

Eternity is a new site-specific commission by internationally renowned performance company Circa Inspired & performed at St John's Cathedral. Eternity is a show that immerses you in a state of rapture, featuring two monumental works of contemporary spiritual music by Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa and Fratres

  • Created by Yaron Lifschitz and the Circa Ensemble.

    Director Yaron Lifschitz
    Composer and Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
    Costume Designer Libby McDonnell

    Arvo Pärt recordings courtesy of the Australian Chamber Orchestra
    Director and Violin Richard Tognetti
    Violin Satu Vänskä (Tabula Rasa)
    Australian Chamber Orchestra

    Eternity is co-commissioned by Brisbane Festival and City of Newcastle’s New Annual festival.

FORKLIFT

KAGE | SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL 2016

Re-imagining the possibilities of machinery into a playful and dangerous sphere, FORKLIFT matches the lightness of limbs with hard edges and heavy metal.

Lyrical, intimate and dangerous, this breathtaking performance combines choreography, contortion and aerial acrobatics on, and around, a working 2.5 tonne forklift.

  • Conceived and Directed by Kate Denborough
    Created in collaboration with the cast.

    Composer: Jethro Woodward
    Costume Design and Construction: Julie Renton

    Cast

    Henna Kaikula / Anna Murray
    Amy Macpherson
    Nicci Wilks


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SHAUN THE SHEEP’S CIRCUS SHOW

CIRCA | STUDIO AARDMAN 2021

Two worlds gleefully collide when the internationally-acclaimed Australian circus ensemble Circa and Academy Award®-winning studio Aardman, bring Shaun the Sheep to the stage. Shaun the Sheep’s Circus Show combines the extreme physicality and awe-inspiring feats of Circa and the playful charm of the multi-award-winning TV series Shaun the Sheep.

  • Created by Yaron Lifschitz
    Based on the Television Series “Shaun the Sheep” devised by Richard Starzak
    Based on an original idea by Nick Park

    Director Yaron Lifschitz
    Scenic Designer Dan Potra
    Composer/Sound Designer Jethro Woodward
    Video Director Craig Wilkinson (Optikal Bloc)
    Costume Designer Libby McDonnell
    Lighting Designer Jason Organ
    Associate Choreographer Elise May
    Associate Lighting Designer Alexander Berlage

    Photo by Prudence Upton.


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RODEO CLOWN

CLUSTER ARTS

This dark, physical comedy is a new Australian work by Nicci Wilks, Susie Dee and the writers of Caravan (Melbourne Festival 2017) - Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius, Wayne Macauley, Melissa Reeves.

The Rodeo Clown mantra goes – save the rider, save your partner, save yourself.

  • Co-Creators: Nicci Wilks and Susie Dee
    Written by Angus Cerini, Patricia Cornelius, Wayne Macauley, Melissa Reeves
    Director: Susie Dee
    Performer: Nicci Wilks
    Sound Design/Composer: Jethro Woodward
    Lighting Design: Kofi Isaacs
    Design Associate: Lindy Macauley
    Choreography Consultant: Michelle Heaven


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