Circus of Horrors tours to York and Newcastle

NEXT month sees the popular Circus of Horrors visit York Barbican on Wednesday, January 25, and Newcastle's Tyne Theatre & Opera House for two nights with its latest incarnation The Never-ending Nightmare on Friday, January 27 and Saturday, January 28.

The spectacular features bizarre, brave and beautiful acts woven into an Alice in Horrorland-type story driven by a mainly-original soundscape and performed with a forked tongue firmly in each cheek.

Annually the show plays more than100 UK theatres and this tour has expanded to take in festivals throughout the world including The Fuji Rock Festival in Japan (twice), the Wacken Festival in Germany plus shows in Chile, Uruguay, Holland, Belgium, Argentina, France, Italy, Ireland, Finland, Hong Kong and Moscow – becoming the first UK Circus to perform in Russia. The show also played an astounding ten nights at London's O2.

Having reached the finals of Britain’s Got Talent, the production became the first circus to perform in London's West End for more than 100 years. And the the Circus of Horrors has also notched up appearances in X Factor, The Slammer, Daybreak, Fairground Attractions, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Body Shockers, Fake Reaction, This Morning, Ant & Dec, The One Show and the Royal Command Performance.

The Circus of Horrors started its gruesome beginnings at the 1995 Glastonbury Festival and went on to appear alongside Alice Cooper, Eminem, Motley Crue, Oasis, Iron Maiden, The Manic St Preachers and the Foo Fighters.

For video footage visit: circusofhorrors.co.uk

Tyne Theatre Box Office: tynetheatreandoperahouse.uk or 0844-2491-000

York Barbican:0844-854-2757 or yorkbarbican.co.uk

Viv Hardwick