Cirque
7th September - later
The 'other circus' in Moscow is quite out of the centre. Although it's in the middle of a large area of heathland, as you walk down the hill to the big top, the horizon is dominated in all directions by high rise flats.
We saw an adaptation of the Nutcracker Suite and it was unbelievable. The costumes and imagery were reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland on crack and the tone of the whole production was equally dark. And yet it was still a circus with obligatory strong man, ripped trapeze monkeys and people in 10 foot rabbit costumes with human faces that got into the audience and abused people.
Overwhelming. Go to Moscow and go straight to this circus. Now.
The 'other circus' in Moscow is quite out of the centre. Although it's in the middle of a large area of heathland, as you walk down the hill to the big top, the horizon is dominated in all directions by high rise flats.
We saw an adaptation of the Nutcracker Suite and it was unbelievable. The costumes and imagery were reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland on crack and the tone of the whole production was equally dark. And yet it was still a circus with obligatory strong man, ripped trapeze monkeys and people in 10 foot rabbit costumes with human faces that got into the audience and abused people.
Overwhelming. Go to Moscow and go straight to this circus. Now.
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