About us – Circo Rum Ba Ba

Circo Rum Ba Ba is a well-established, highly experienced women’s circus theatre company which fuses spectacular theatre with a diverse range of circus skills, comedic characters and narratives to bring extraordinary shared experiences to communities and audiences across the U.K. The company are committed to developing wonderfully bizarre, offbeat shows, promenades and walkabout characters for free to the public arts and community events. We bring theatre and circus to places where it is not expected to engage incidental audiences who don’t always have access to the arts. From the subtle cameo to the grand parade, Circo Rum Ba Ba combines the surprising with the impossible, to produce a thrilling phenomenon of spectacle and show.

As well as performing at free to the public arts events, Circo Rum Ba Ba is dedicated to conceiving unique projects that have community impact and have been supported every year by The Arts Council England, The Arts Council Wales and Kent Community Foundation to create some amazing projects for targeted audiences and participants.

Marianne Grove trained with Imegi Circus in Japan and at the National Centre for Circus Arts (formally Circus Space) London UK. She has a myriad of circus and performance skills. She comes up with all the ideas for the company and always has more ideas floating around in her wonderfully imaginative brain, so if you need to create something unique for your event she’s the one to ask. She also designs all the costumes and sets for all the acts.

Winnie Elliott trained as an actor and later in circus. She performs and runs the admin side of the company and is the person you will talk to in the office. She is a great organiser and keeps the troupe on the right track and heading for the right gig with the right show! Winnie is known for her brilliant slapstick and comic timing.

Selected Clients

UK Festivals and Arts Events

National Theatre River Stage London
Greenwich and Docklands International Festival London
Thames Festival London
Croydon Mela
Belfast Festival of Fools
Belfast Maritime Festival
Stockton International Riverside Festival
Bexhill After Dark
Gravesend Winter Lights
Medway Light Nights
UEL After Dark, London
Spilsby Light Night
St Patricks Day Parade, Dublin
Now, Northwich
Streets of Rother
Bath Fringe Festival
Brighton Festival
City Encounters Salisbury
Devises International Street Festival
Geronimo Festival
Norwich Festival
Ashbourne Festival
Basingstoke Festival
Corn Exchange/101 Festival Newbury
Holmfirth Arts Festival
Kensington and Chelsea Festival London
Leicester Riverside Festival
Manchester Day
Manchester International Festival
SO Festival Skegness
Unwrapped Festival Eastleigh
Beverley Puppet Festival
Big Splash Newport
Bristol Harbour Festival
Camp Bestival
Chelmsford Carnival
Festival of the Sea, Grimsby
Fleetwood Festival of Transport
Hartlepool Waterfront Festival
Hat Fair, Winchester
Imagine Watford
Lambeth Country Show London
Merchant City Festival London
Milton Keynes International Festival
Wells Carnival
Whirligig Festival
Art In The Park Festival Leamington Spa
Bradford Mela
Exeter Street Arts Festival
Freedom Festival Hull
Green Man
Cambridge Folk Festival
Just So Festival
Leicester City Festival
Arts By The Sea Bournmouth
Arts Fresco Market Harborough
Orkney Festival
Derby Festé
Full Shebang, Mansfield
Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth
Covent Garden Opera Festival London
Hastings Storytelling Festival
Puddings and Pathways Festival
Belfast Halloween Festival
Derry Tall Ships Festival
Paisley Halloween Festival
Tunbridge Wells Puppet Festival
Bridgewater Carnival
Devises Winter Festival
Harbour Festival Cardiff
Beautiful Days Festival Devon
Barnaby Festival Macclesfield
Showzam Blackpool
Serious Nonsense Prescot
Fuse Festival Rochester
Spare Parts Festival Fleetwood
Portsmouth Festivities
Love Letchworth
Holmfirrh Arts Festival
Tall Ships Liverpool
Fresh Air Festival Brightlingsea
Lollibop
Deal Music & Arts Festival
Hullabaloo Beds
Streets Alive Chelmsford
Waterfest Reading
Waterfront Festival Hartlepool
Summer Streets St Helens
River Festival Chatham

International Tours and Festivals

Oulu Children’s and Youth Theatre Festival, Finland
Singapore International Festival of Arts
Superbloom, Munich Germany
Deventer Stilt Festival, Netherlands
Lille 3000, France
Sibiu Internațional Theatre Festival , România
Bucharest Street Arts Festival, Romania
Imaginarius Festival, Portugal
Gentse Feesten, Belgium
Theater op de Markt, Belgium
Eke Festival, Belgium
Beveren Festival, Belgium
Waregem Festival, Belgium
Blankenberge Festival, Belgium
Beeldig Lommel, Belgium
Wonderweekend BV Meisse Belgium
Luxembourg Theaterfest
Danmarks Internationale Gadeteaterfestivaler, Denmark
British Flair Hamburg, Germany
Waterford Festival, Ireland
Strassen Festival, Luxembourg
Eid-al-Adha, Doha, Qatar
International Women’s Forum, France
La Fete de Noue Jersey
Sziget Budapest
Festival Les Rues France
Spraoi Festival Ireland

Corporate/Private Clients

Alnwick Castle
BBC
Boots Plc
Barbican Centre London
Barts And The London NHS Trust
Bluewater
Butlins
Cancer Research UK
Centreparcs
Citroen
The National Trust
English Heritage
Duke of Northumberland – Alnwick Gardens
Sir Elton John
Lord March – Goodwood
HM Queen Elizabeth 11
HM King Charles 111 (when Prince of Wales)
Lord March – Goodwood