CIRQUE Berserk is awesome, and that’s something I rarely say.
A circus spectacular with thrills, spills, sparkly costumes and buff torsos a plenty. It’s a clever, highly entertaining, and seamlessly staged production specially conceived for the stage.
- Cirque Berserk performs death-defying stunts at Darlington Hippodrome
- There’s tumbling and acrobatics, knife throwing and balancing, aerial displays and juggling all performed to pounding rhythms - my ears are still ringing the morning after - and an incredibly talented, international company, who appear to be having a ball.
There’s Odka the Mongolian contortionist; the Timbuktu tumblers; Germaine Delbosq, the French footjuggler; English aerial work from Rosey and Jackie, and a generous serving of slapstick comedy from Brazilian clowns, The Mustache Brothers. And that’s without mentioning the jaw-dropping, dare-devil motorcyclists in the Lucius Team. Yes, motorcyclists, on stage. To say more would be to ruin the surprise, but it had me gaping open-mouthed in disbelief. And what was the man with the fire extinguisher going to do if anything went wrong?
With set design by Sean Cavanagh, lighting design by Mike Robertson and creative direction by Julius Green, a new and exciting form of circus has been created. No doubt influenced by the enormous success of Cirque du Soleil, this has nevertheless carved out a very neat niche of its own.
So, cancel the holiday, throw away the television, flush the computer games down the loo, and prepare the family for an extraordinary evening. Cirque Berserk is something very special indeed.
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