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Can You Handle This? I Don't Think You Can Handle This

He'd rather drink tea than VB, rather watch the Tonys than the Brownlow and he's sick of being the sidekick, not the Star!

This September The Butterfly Club presents a zany jaunt through mudical theatre and light opera classics as Luke Belle grapples with is on and off stage role as the long-time sidekick and Sensitve New Age Guy in a world of leading men - Prince Charming, the Hemsworth brothers and Christian Grey.
Luke might have bene an orphan in Fagan's gang. a Lord High Executionaer and a Gondolier-turned-King but he's never been the Leading Man, the heart=throb, the bad boy of even the boy-nest-door.
He's got a classic casse of Sidekick Syndrome and he wants to sing about it.
Moving from country Victoria to pursue training in classical voice over the last eight years, Luke is trading his opera roots foe a one-man cabaret this September. "In cabaret I/m abler to explore my love of musical theatre - including songs made famous by women - and play more than I would normally, in the classical world," says Luke, a cassically-trained light baritone.
With silly observations from childhood, teenage years in regional Victoria and today, this cheerful and carefully-crafted cabaret includes classic show tunes, much-loved Gilbert and sullivan standards as well as lesser-known operatta repertoire.
Season: September 12 - 17. 2017.

The Sin-Sational Rita & Mae

Censorship, sex, scandals, love affairs. Rita Hayworth and Mae West were known as the Love-Goddess and the Wueen of double-entende, made infamous for their portrayal of bad girls on the screen, and their scandalous lives off screen. But what was the real story?

Rita Hayworth a pin-=up Princess and Love-goddess. See how this little Spanish girl from the Bronx became the fiery red-head on the silver screen loved and desired the world over. From the Bronx to Hollywood, this is a woman with passion, drama and undeniable sex appeal.
Mae West, a captivating, curvaceous, complex and much caricatured icon; this is the smouldering woman who made it possible to say 'sex' on the silver screen and in public. Her wit, charm and sultry humour will have you realising pretty quickly that she's not a good girl gone bad but a bd girl found out.
A Melbourne preniere of a new Cabaret, featuring International Cabaret Competition Award Winner Melody Beck as Rita Hayworth and voice-over artist Lucinda Beck as Mae West, this sister duo will explore the lives of these femme fatale icons and what shaped them through songs from the past and the present, asking the question, is it really good to be bad?
Season: September 18 - 24. 2017.

Shaken

The Man. The Number. The License. His name is bond, James Bond.
Perfect for newbies and know-it-alls alike.Shaken plunges head first into over 50 years of James Bond iconography. Pitting the seven ;James Bond' actors against each other in a race to determine, scientifically, which of them is the greatest all-time Bond>
Whether you're a new convert to Bond movies through Craig or Brosnan, a fan of the kitschy Moore era, or a classic Connory devotee, Shaken is the showw for you.
Come and join Barkle and Clark as they stir up the audience, shake up their martinis and belt Bond like you're never heard it before.
Season: Tuesday October 10 - Saturday Otober 15, 2017.

The Lucinda Light Show

A side-splitting comedy cabaret into the hilarious and humilating journey of being human. This is a life affirming show told through a lens of spactcular vignettes and showcased in an underground white labyrinth space that is a great late-night experience. This comedy cabaret is for anyone who wants to renew their love for humanity, has a great sense of humour and is a philosopher at heart. This is Consious Cabaret - a new paradigm of theatre.
Season: September 27 - 30. 2017

Circus Oz Sidesault - a program that supports and develops circus.

Through their Sidesault program, Circus Oz is thrilled to anounce a full schedue of artform development for the balance of 2017.
Ovwer the coming months, Sidesault will present a festival of experimental work from independent companies, the premiere of an intimate rock opera, a new artistic collaboration and a series of master classes and creative developments with some of Australia's most exciting and innovative circus artist.
August 2017 - Company 2 collaboration:
Focussung on multiple tight wires, this creative development is a collaboration between several generations of circus artists, Brisbane based Company 2 and Rob Tannion. It will be an int-generational creative exchange that intewrrogates the tensions of family relationships and the balance of odern family life.
September 2017 - Circus Oz Blackflip:
Building on the success of Chasing Smoke at Yirramboi this year, the Circus Oz Backflip masterclass will fire up again wit some of Australia's emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderr circu artists to develop ew works and actc with dircus trainers and performance experts.
Otober 2017 - Circus Oz Strongwomen.
In this year's Melbourne Festival, the Circus Oz Strong Woman participants will perform as part of Taylor Mack's A 24 Decade Historyu of Popular Music. The early suffragate movement and the contest of land ownership in colonial and post-colonial countries will inspire the Strong Women performnce.
November 2017-Sidesault at The Melba:
Over two weeks in Novenber at The Melba Spiegeltent in collingwood, Circus Oz will curate he inaugural festival of experimental circus, Sidesault at The Melba, and present four indepenent companies with new workks thatr include a political sideshow, a feminist circus performance and an edgy circus cabaret.
November to December 2017- Stacks On! education show:
In response to the Victorian Government respectful relationdhips curriculum, Circus Oz has developed a new education show, Stocks On! premiering at The Melba Spiegeltent (and including circus skills workshops for school auidiences) and will cuminae in a Tin top Tour to three locations in western victoria offering free workshops and shows to local communities.
Decemnber 2017 -The Strange and Spektakulär Lives of Otto and Astrid:
Following creative development earlier this year, Circus Oz and Die Roten Punkte will premiere he Strange and Spektakulär Lives of Otto and Astrid at the Meat Market. It will be an intimate, circus infused, rock opera telling the true story of the rise to fame of the best rock band in the world.
August to December 2017 - Other Companies:
Throughiut the remainder if the year, the Circus Oz Sidesault program is supporting the following indpenent artists and companies in kind rehearsal space: TEOC, Diclocate, blue Studios, A Good Catch and Australia/UK Polo Duo Tarn Scully and Laura Moy.

Mark Vincent

Australia's hottest classical treasure Mark Vincent wilol tour Australia in October/November showcasing his latest album A Tribute to Mario Lanza.
Eight years after he won Australia's heart and went on to record seven chart-topping albums with worldwide sales exceeding half a million units, Mark Vincent has set a new benchmark: a 'virtual duet' with one of the giants of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Mario Lanza.
The show will ferature a beautifully crafted set list performed with bandand strings pulling from the album, and Mark's distinguished catalogue. Mark sing alongside Marion in Because You're Mine and one of the legendary movie star's biggest hits. Re-mastered and re-edited, the song, taken from the MGM musical of the same name, is given a fresh and brilliant new cynamic with the addition of Mark's rich tenor tones.
Season: Sunday November 12, 2017

Aladdin

A story of Aladdin. the magic lantern, an enthusiastic genie, many dancers and a great fun night of theatre.
Season opened April 20. 2017

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Godot: the Wait is Over

Beckett's classic play defies imitation, but in Godot: the Wait is Over, we respectfully re-join Didi and Gogo as they grapple with existental questions and agonise over the impending arrival of their greatest fear and derqrest hope - the mysterious "Mr Godot".
Ian robinson's play succeeds in being both a respectful homage to the original and an irreverent flight of delicious fantasy away from it. He has amaged to transform he draamatic milieu and the rhythms of WEaiting for Godot into something new.
Season: September 7 - 17. 2017

Pancake Opus 101

In 10 moments Pancake Opus 101 navigates the path between the mundane and the magical.
Season: September 20 - 24. 2017.

Echo

Buckle Up!
Let's take a trip down unplanned-pregnancy lane and journey through the perilous and often thankless terrain of motherhood.
we'll be tearing sown some outdated ideologies and social stigmas along the way as we deal with relationship breakups and personal breakdowns. Then we'll tackle misogyny and thenot so subtle pressure for women o procreate. Moving on to infertility and abortion-to be or not to be? You kanow, the fun stuff.
Season: September 27 - October 1. 2017.

Six Degrees in Melbourne

Six lives. Six stories. Six degrees of intensity. We'll ease you slowly into the theatrical journey and then by degree, we'll start to turn up the heat. a secret quivering beneath the surface, breaking through before being pulled back by a possessive protoganist, then anothe story, another secret, while the whole time a tram dips in and out. The tram gently rocks before speeding on to the final stop-this is yur final degree.
Season: Octeber 4 - 15. 2017

La Mama for Kids

La Mama Musica

La Mama Poetica

2016 Season

BECKETT THEATRE

2017 Season

MERLYN THEATRE

Black Rider - The casting of magic bullets.

A naive hunter travels to a crossroads in the dead of night to conjure the devil. He's willing to bargain almost anything in exchange for magic silver bullets that will never miss their mark, But the devil makes cunning deals - just when you think you can have it all, you may have unwittingly given it all away. "
Season: September 15 - October 8. 2017.

The Testament of Mary

Years after the crucifixion, young men are hounding the mother of Jesus. The discipiles want her to endorse the story they are constructing about her son - stories of a man who performed miracles and rose from the dead. They say her son is the son of God.
Rejected by the authors of the Gospel, Mary tells the story that no-one wants to write. This Mary is unrecognisable frome the meek, obediant woman of scripture, painting and sculpture. She is angry, sharp-witted and dares to speak a dangerous truth. She is a mother who would not save her don from fanaticism and manipulation, who could not save him from his death upon the cross."
Season: November 3 - 26. 2017

Every Trick in the Book

Set in the glittering 1930s Hollywood, by director Alec Gilbert, Ribadier thinks he has got it right by ... hyonotising his wife Angèle... which all comes unstuck when Thommereux her former boyfriend learns the technique and tries it too with unforeseen consequences... bring in Gasman, lovestruck by Ribadier's maid Sophie and wine merchant Savinet into the mix and nothing prepares you for the finish... one of Feydeau's thinking person's comedy with a twist.
Season: September 7 - 16. 2017

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Pop Up Globe

Shakespeare like it’s 1614
Pop-up Globe, the world’s first full-scale temporary working replica of one of the greatest theatres in history, the second Globe, has poped-up right next door to the iconic Sidney Myer Music Bowl.
It will pop-up, be amazing and then disappear again.
Epic battles. Laugh-out-loud comedy. Dazzling special effects. Elaborate costumes. Spectacular dances. Sword fights in full suits of armour. This is Shakespeare like it’s 1614.\
Don’t miss the immersive experience of Shakespeare performed in the space for which it was written.
This isn’t dusty Shakespeare. This is now. Alive. Like a party.

Pop0up Globe is proud to present four critically acclaimed productions, all made in-house by the company’s annual professional acting ensemble, supported by voice, movement and stage combat specialists, designers, scenic artists, production and stage managers, directors, academics and creative teams
The four productions Henry V, (1599), As You Like It (1599), Othello (1604), and Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99) are bound together by their shared place as outputs of an earlier-to-mid-career playwright working at the height of his powers. But they share more than this extraordinary pedigree,
All of Shakespeare’s plays offer treatments of love as the most powerful transformative force working on the human condition. But these four are unusual in that they all take acts of jealousy as their primary structural motivation. Jealousy, the ‘green-eyed monster’ is the darker side of love.
he stronger the love, the stronger the attendant jealousy.   
See it from 21 September – 12 November 2017. Only in Melbourne.
Pop-Up Globe Sydney Myer Music Bowel. Melbourne. .

Witness Shakespeare’s ultimate psychological thriller in Pop-up Globe’s
production of Othello.
Take a journey into the diseased mind of the noble Moor as
he’s consumed by jealousy, ‘the green-eyed monster.’ The twists and turns in
this powerful and dark production will have you on the edge of your seat.
Othello “O beware, my Lord, of jealousy. / It is the green-eyed monster
which doth mock / The meat it feeds on.”
The Pop-up Globe Queen’s Company presents Othello at Pop-up Globe Melbourne.
The Pop-up Globe Queen’s Company is Pop-up Globe’s resident mixed company
of male and female actors and live musicians, working with world experts to bring you the shock of the old: the effect of Shakespeare’s plays performed in the space for which they were written.

Henry V,
Shakespeare’s tribute to one of history’s greatest leaders, comes alive like an action movie. Be part of the English army as the heroic King Henry takes on the French army at Agincourt in the face of impossible odds. No knowledge of history is necessary to enjoy this immersive theatrical experience complete with spectacular and blood-thirsty battle sequences, performed by sixteen men in full armour wielding broadswords, longbows, garottes, cross-bows, bagpipes and a frying pan.

Henry V
“We would not die in that man’s company / That fears his fellowship to die with us.”
The Pop-up Globe King’s Company presents
Henry V
at Pop-up Globe Melbourne.
The Pop-up Globe King’s Company is Pop-up Globe’s resident all-male company of actors and live musicians, working with world experts to bring you the shock of the old: the effect of Shakespeare’s plays performed in the space and style for which they were written.

Step into history and experience the triumphs and disasters that tell the story of the second Globe Theatre: from the fascinating story of its construction by Shakespeare and company after the catastrophic mid-performance fire of  1613 to its decline and fall as the bloody English Civil War started in 1642. Along the way, expect to meet outrageous characters from its history, and to laugh, shout and cheer as a cast of five actors share the extraordinary tale of one of the greatest theatres in history: the second
Globe.

Around The Globe In 60 Minutes! The Pop-up Globe Admiral’s Company
presents Around The Globe In 60 Minutes! at Pop-up Globe Melbourne.
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Precipice

This September NICA invites you to witness Australia's next generation of ciecus talents in Precipice.
Leaping into a world of chaos Precipice defies danger in an effort to celebrate life - through exhilerating tumbles, turns, shifts and falls. Interrograting the impermance of time, physical and psychological senses.
19 elite NICA circus artists have spent the last two years honing their skills, guided by world-class trainors. The performers present spectular solo and duo sets including roue Cyr, group acrobatics, handstands, asagio, unicycle, juggling, aerial rope, diablo, head trapeze and multicorde.
Season: September 20 - 23. 2017

Meet The Owl and Cat Collective

The Owl and Cat has formed a Collective... A group of Melbourne based artists who love theatre and believe in the independent sector. The collective are all working on a volunteer basis and without any external funding they are very proud to present a season of playes jam packed with poerful stories for you to enjoy.

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1st Sunday: Poetry Slam
2nd Sunday: Orgasm short play festival
3rd Sunday: Co-Exist
4th Sunday: Scratch Community

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2017 Season

The Way Out

Helen and her father, Stewart, a local civil war veteran, sell moonshine to a broken town, struggling to survive in a poisoned landscape.
Helen believes in a differen future but no one is listening. Then a government inspector arrives on the same day as a travelling market salesman.
Set in a commuity constructed in he aftermath of atrocity The Way Out explores family loyality and how the denial of culpability can become a tool for survival./
Season: August 24 - September24. 2017.

Whose Story Is It?

sex god puppet trump man woman hypocrits yes to no dog fat love fear leia euthanasia dong dance peace world light dark eyes skin touch mouth words media family sister guilt home retribution delicate execution memory jesus bed locks dirty vision human beast agitate hope lick sweat demonic liar seduction not nasty fissures youth betray me you fire now please go.
We like being out front. With a couple of new projects up our sleeve we have much to choose from... and we're sweeping just one slot a mystery so we won't have to make that choice just yet. Yep, one of the benefits if a small company is flexibility , and luckily you let us do that.
More fun all araound.
Season: October 3 - November 5. 2017

Desert. 6.29 pm

A small town in the middle of nowhere, it's dinnertime and we are invited into the lives of Xanm her mother and father Crystal and Rico and her older brother Jamie. This is a family that long ago stopped talking about who they really are, what they really want. Deaert 6.39pm deftly explores the political through the deeply [erspnal.
Season: November 14 - December 14. 2o17.

Playlist, 2017

A change is as good as a holiday

The best end of year party in town, intimate theatre, live music, adventure.
Ten writers, Ten Songs, Each writer selects a song. each play is only as long as the song.
Season: December 16 & 17. 2017.

We Need You More Than Ever

Hullo,

It has been an overwhelmingly exciting year for Red Stitch - sellout houses,. new audiences, loyal supporters, regional tours and a season of acclaimed new work. And, with thanks to you - a small step in the right direction with an increase to our artists fees. We are growing and the outlook for the next 6 months is no exception.
However, the proposed Federal Government budget reform to the Arts announcement last month has sent waves of uncertainty through our community. Red Stitch are among those now vulnerable to funding cuts. Grant applications that were well underway have been scrapped as relevent programs evaporate.
We need our community's support now more than ever! We are committed to advancing the vitality of Australian theatre through nurturing artists and an unerring pursuit of integrity in our craft. But without our audience, theatre doesn't exist. We ask you, our community, to do what you can to ensure Red Stitch is alive and vibrant for years to come.
WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Support our EOFY campaign by making tax deductible donation.

Twisted Broadway

Featuring a stunning lineup of some of Australia's most beloved Television and Musical Theatre stars, singing songs originally written for the opposite gender, Twisted Broadway is the thrilling one-night only charity concert in support of the Victorian Aids Council (VAC) & Oz Cowbiz Cores/Equity Fights Aids.
From the humble beginnings as REd Pennies in 2010, this year Twisted Broadway will take over the glorious Regent Theatre for the very first time and promises a one-off night of show-stopping, gender-bending entertainment with hosts and performers to be announced shortly.
The Gordon Frost Organisation has kindly donated the use of the Regent Theatre for this year's concert which is to be staged on the set of Michael Harrison, David Ian and John Frost's production of The Bodyguard.
Season: Monday October 2. 2017

Lionel Richie All the Hits with Chic, Nile Rodgers

Multi platinum-selling artist, mutiple Grammy Award® winner and musical icon, Linnel Richie will tour Australia in Septenber and October on All the Hits Tour.
|Special guess on the tour are aCHIC featuring Nile Rodgers.
Intenational superstar, Lionel Richie, has a disography of albums and singkes that are second to none. His music is part of the fabric of pop music; in fact, Lionel Richie is one of only two songwriters in history to achieve the honour of having #1 records for nine consecutive years. With over 100 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar, a Golde Globe, four Grammy awards and the distiction of MusiCares person of the year in 2016. The Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icin.
Season: Saturday October 7. 2017

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Lionel Richie All the Hits with Chic, Nile Rodgers

Multi platinum-selling artist, mutiple Grammy Award® winner and musical icon, Linnel Richie will tour Australia in Septenber and October on All the Hits Tour.
|Special guess on the tour are aCHIC featuring Nile Rodgers.
Intenational superstar, Lionel Richie, has a disography of albums and singkes that are second to none. His music is part of the fabric of pop music; in fact, Lionel Richie is one of only two songwriters in history to achieve the honour of having #1 records for nine consecutive years. With over 100 million albums sold worldwide, an Oscar, a Golde Globe, four Grammy awards and the distiction of MusiCares person of the year in 2016. The Tuskegee, Alabama native is a true music icin.
Season: Tuesday October 17. 2017

2017 Queensland Music Festival

Mark Vincent

Australia's hottest classical treasure Mark Vincent wilol tour Australia in October/November showcasing his latest album A Tribute to Mario Lanza.
Eight years after he won Australia's heart and went on to record seven chart-topping albums with worldwide sales exceeding half a million units, Mark Vincent has set a new benchmark: a 'virtual duet' with one of the giants of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Mario Lanza.
The show will ferature a beautifully crafted set list performed with bandand strings pulling from the album, and Mark's distinguished catalogue. Mark sing alongside Marion in Because You're Mine and one of the legendary movie star's biggest hits. Re-mastered and re-edited, the song, taken from the MGM musical of the same name, is given a fresh and brilliant new cynamic with the addition of Mark's rich tenor tones.
Season: Sunday October 29. 2017

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Terror

A hijacked plane is heading for a packed football stadium, ignoring orders, a fighter pilot shoots the plane down, killing 164 on board to save the 70,000.
Put on trial and charged with murder, the fat of the pilot is in the audience's hands.
You are the jury, so how will you vote?
Season: September 18 - 23. 2017.

Disgraced

Exploring freedom of speech, political correctness and the prejudices towards Islam that still persist even in the most progressive culterla circles.
Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize winning drama fearlessly puts contemporary attitudes towards politics, race and religion under the microscope. Exploring freedom of speech, political correctness and the prejudices toward Islam that still persist even in the most progressive culteral circles.
Amir is on track to make partner in his law firm, he lives with his artist wife Emily in their spacious Upper Eastside apartment where occasionaly they throw a dinner party. Tonight's guests are Jory, a work colleague, ad her husband Isaac, an art dealer, and with so much in common the conversation flows easily. Then, as it inevitably does in todays conflicted America the topic turns to race, religion and identity. How quickly things fall apart.
Season: October 16 - November 6. 2017.

Scenes From A Marraige

A riveting portrait of a marriage performed by a real-life couple.

L:ove blooms. Love fades. It happens to everyone. It could be happening next door. And in any marriage torn asunder, sifting throught the wreckage is going to get messy. even a seemingly perfect marriage has cracks in its facade, cracks that if untended can become gaping rifts. Johan and Marianne are the ideal couple , two daughters, glittering careers, a lovely home.
but when Johan admits to sleeping ith another woman, he detonates the first bomn in what will become a ferocious and savagel comic batle.
Season: November 11 - December 3. 2017

Tartuffe

con men don't vome any more brazen than Tartuffe.

He'll wheedle his way into your lif and before you know it, all you had was gone.
The slick swindler's latest mark is the wealthy Orgon, ead of a household on the very top rung of society's ladder. Orgo has worked hard o make his fortune and live a lavish life, but something is missing
Posing as a spiritual advisor, Tartuffe is selling salvation to the successful but soul-sick socialite and has him wraped around his little finger. The creep intends to ruin Orgon and walk away with his fortune, wife and daughter to boot! But fortunately Ogon's family can see right through this devilish imposter.
Ribald and riotously irreverent, Tartuffe is abgout a war of wits between a falsely pious fraud and a family conspiring to catch him with his pants around his ankles.
Season: November 12 - December 4. 2017

Seinfield Live

Jerry Seinfield brings Stand-up Show to Australia.
A show filled with his trademark humour, wit and sharp observations about everyday life.
Globally known and loved for his eponymous sitcom about nothing, Jerry Seinfield;s took off in 1981 after his first appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
Eight years later he teamed up with fellow comedian Larry David to creat what was to become the most successful comedy series in the history of television: Seinfield. Starring a senifictional version of its star, Seinfield ran for nine seaaons, screened around the world and won numerous Emmy, Golden Globe and People's Choice Awards. IN 2009 it was named the greatest television show of all time by TV Guide, it was judged the best sitcom ever in a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll three years later.
Season: Saturday August 5. 2017

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The Ship That Never Was

Tasmanina's longest running play The Ship That Never Was based on a real event in 1834 when the last ship built at the convict settlement at Macquarie Harbour was about to sail for the new prison at Poet Arthur but was hijacked by 10 convict shipwrights.
So begins the story of an amazing escape, an extraordinary voyage and an intriguing twist in the tale of The Ship That Never Was.
The play tells the dramatic and hilarious true story of the Great Edcape from Sarah Island! delightful family entertainment not to be missed.
Advance bookings are necessary for all grouops. The play is approxiamately one hour and is performed every day at 5.30pm and from December 27th to January 26th at 5. 30 pm and 8.30pm.

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Kooza

Cirque du Soleil rediscovers its origins witht the company's eigth Big Top show to tour Australia. A return to the intimate and fundamental human elements of circus, Kooza combines thrilling acrobatic performance with the art of clowning. We follow The Innocent as he takes a journey of self-discovery through a comic kingdom of eccentric characters, electrifying thrills and out-of-the-box surprises.
Presented in a colourful mélange, Kooza springs open like a bejeweled toy box to capture the audience's imagination and set their pulse racing. Sheer human effort - performance in its rawest, purest form - is showcased in all its splendour and fragility.
The international cast of 50 acrobats, musicians, singers and actors present heart-stopping feats and laugh-out-loud antics to a live soundtrack fusion of jazz, funk and Bollywood beats.
Fun Facts about Kooza
All of Kooza's performers apply their own make-up. This can take up to two hours.
The teeterboard act in Kooza flongs artists into the air where they execute quintuple twisting somersaults.. and that's just the prelude!
The name Kooza is inspired by the3 Sankrist word "koza" which means "box", "Chest" or "treasure" chosen because one of the uderlying concepts of the production is the idea of a "circus in a box".
Kooza's beautiful costumes were designed by Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt. She drew inspiration from a wide variety of sources including graphic novels, the painter Klimt, Mad Max movies, timetravel movies, India nad Eastern Europe, clock movements, tin soldiers, narching bands and more. this all merges to create a colourful look that alludes to Alice in Wonderland, Baron Munshüsen and The Wizard of Oz.
There are more than 175 costumes ansd 160 hats in the show - 1,080 items in all, including all the shoes, props and wigs.
The contortionists costumes appear to have metal chains and jewels on them. The metallic chains are actuallyu made of elastc and the jewels are silicone, to prevent any injury to the performers.
One army costume features more than 400 individually sewn metallic flaps tp create the effect that it is armoured.

Season opens April 13. 2017