Spaghetti Circus teens put circus to the test in Wait, What? The teenage performers of Spaghetti Circus will flip, juggle, spin, jump and balance their way through a playful circus experiment this month, when Wait, What? comes to the Spaghetti Circus Back Shed at Mullumbimby Showground for two performances on Friday, 20 and Saturday, 21 November.
Framed as a circus experiment in progress, the hour-long show pits the junior members of the Spaghetti Circus Performance Troupe against a team of ‘citizen scientists’ determined to measure just how high, how dizzy, how many, and which way? The question is whether any of the acrobats will get the better of the scientists.
Wait, What? was originally created by Head of Circus School Petrina Hutchinson for Spaghetti Circus’s 2022 season at Woodford Folk Festival. This year, Head of Performance Troupe Scott McBurnie has reimagined it with the troupe’s junior members.
The title comes straight from the training floor. ‘Wait, what? is often heard during classes, as our circus teenagers are encouraged to move out of their comfort zone and try different ways to move,’ says Petrina.
‘Making this show with the junior troupe has been one long experiment,’ says Scott. ‘We’d set a challenge, they’d say ‘wait, what?’, and then they’d go and find a way to do it that none of us expected. That’s what we want audiences to see – young people being brave, being silly and backing each other.’
The show is suitable for all ages, and no animals were used in the making of it. Tickets are on sale now at spaghetticircus.com.
Wait, What? – Spaghetti Circus Performance Troupe on Friday, 20 November at 6.30pm and Saturday, 21 November, at 11.30am, at the Spaghetti Circus Back Shed, Mullumbimby Showground.
Tickets: Adult $30; child (2-17 years) $15. Bookings: spaghetticircus.com
via humanitix: events.humanitix.com/wait-what.
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