What can one do for 45 minutes? Sleep in? Take a long bath? Have an extended breakfast? At the Oxford Playhouse, Circa presents a crew of performers who certainly know how to pass the time. Chelsea McGuffin, Darcy Grant and David Carberry will flip, bend, fly, juggle and balance for your amusement and all for a generous price of £7.50 (that's 16p per act!).
Grant (who spent most of the show upside down) has been a circus performer from the age of 13 and offers a range of talents from skipping on a unicycle to balancing on his fingers. And yet he has a hard time upstaging his fellow entertainer, McGuffin, a fierce ball of circus energy. Trained by the Moscow State Circus, she hangs like a bat from the trapeze, tip toes seamlessly across the tight wire and manages to squeeze bum first through a hoop the width of a child-size pizza (don't try this at home).
The whole extravaganza is underscored by DJ, Carberry, who provides a variety of meaty dance tracks to intensify the already grippingly intense atmosphere as the performers race against the clock. This zestful production is good value for money and cannot possibly be called a waste of time. Their next performance is at The Maltings in Farnham, Surrey on the 8th of July. See it if you've 45 minutes to spare, an exciting alternative to a long bath.
Grant (who spent most of the show upside down) has been a circus performer from the age of 13 and offers a range of talents from skipping on a unicycle to balancing on his fingers. And yet he has a hard time upstaging his fellow entertainer, McGuffin, a fierce ball of circus energy. Trained by the Moscow State Circus, she hangs like a bat from the trapeze, tip toes seamlessly across the tight wire and manages to squeeze bum first through a hoop the width of a child-size pizza (don't try this at home).
The whole extravaganza is underscored by DJ, Carberry, who provides a variety of meaty dance tracks to intensify the already grippingly intense atmosphere as the performers race against the clock. This zestful production is good value for money and cannot possibly be called a waste of time. Their next performance is at The Maltings in Farnham, Surrey on the 8th of July. See it if you've 45 minutes to spare, an exciting alternative to a long bath.