It is 328 BC. Leonides of Rhodes stretches and postures with his solid stone discus. He is warming up for the competition and keeping a watchful eye on Hermogenes of Xanthus who lunges and flexes with his javelin. Both are keen to list their previous Olympic triumphs as they interact with their adoring crowds in Ancient Greek and pay homage to their god Zeus.
A walk about character performance starring Two Stilt Athletes with huge enhanced muscle costumes, javelin and discus props and an olympic sound track. The performers interact with the audience as if they are all at the Ancient greek olympics. they are ridiculously competitive with each other and in great awe of the other medal winning athletes around them (the members of the audience) who they extol openly praising them for their wondrous olympic achievements!
Two all wrestling giant athletes on stilts with incredible physiques and carefully positioned loin cloths!
Ladies and Gentlemen, put your hands together for your mistress of ceremonies…..Cindy Coppersmarts, your Circus Ringmistress!
Dressed in the glitz, glamour and tail-coated finery of Coppersmarts Circus, Cindy will announce acts, real or fantasy and give your event the true circus ring razzmatazz. She is accompanied by Olga Stroganoff, the incredible Circus Strong Woman, who will amaze the audience with feats of impossible muscle-rippling strength, even balancing a dumb bell bar on her chest! She addresses each person as another act in the circus and as far as we know has never in her hormone-popping life been out of a high leg leotard!
Fats and Toots a gangster and his moll, straight out of 1930’s Chicago and dripping with dough and diamonds, greet everyone by name or reputation. Beware the violin case!
A Medieval Tower moves miraculously around on its stone foundations.
High up from its gothic arch window, a beautiful Damsel in distress, the good Lady Dorigan, engages pleadingly with gallant male suitors below to rescue her from her ivory tower. Accompanying her is a toothless old crone Apothecary, with a basket full of Dark-Ages potions and lotions, who encourages the gallant squires to scale her Lady’s great heights whilst trying to steal a kiss for herself!
The god and goddess of the sea are two resplendent nearly nudes with carefully positioned oyster shells and enormous feet whilst on land. They hand out godly premonitions and invite the audience into their wonderful underwater world.
Ahoy there, me hearties! Bosun Barnacle and Cap’n Short Joan Silver, two scurvy pirates in a boat on Stilts, navigate their way through the audience, plundering and looting as they sail into a port near you. They are hale and hearty and always at the ready to give the landlubbers a taste of the salt water!
Two lavishly dressed 18th Century powdered-wigged women divulge court gossip behind their golden fans, polish bald mens’ heads with their powder puffs and generously bestow fellow ladies with beauty spots.
They have a keen eye for eligible gentlemen and are ever ready for a dangerous liaison!
Two lavishly dressed 18th Century powdered-wigged women divulge court gossip behind their golden fans, polish bald mens’ heads with their powder puffs and generously bestow fellow ladies with beauty spots.
They have a keen eye for eligible gentlemen and are ever ready for a dangerous liaison!
1970’s rock babes, Roxy and Dixie, are slim hipped and glossy lipped and the coolest dudes in town as they get on down to their funky 70s tunes, encouraging the audience to dance along with them in the hope of joining the group, Pans People. Groovy.
The stunning Flying Fox Bats on stilts lead the bat keeper through the streets squealing and flapping their huge expanse of wing as they flit between the audience to the strains of gipsy music.
The bat keeper plucks insects from people’s hair and bags as tasty morsels for her pets and dances to the strains of the haunting melody.
At various intervals she produces a musical saw and as she plays the bats perform a ten-minute spectacle of bat flight during which a special member of the audience is selected! Will the chosen one be changed forever and who will fly with the bats this time?
Find out in this unique style of promenade performance which fuses the mystery of gothic fairy tale with the wonder of the giant Flying Fox Bats.
Helga, Olga and Vulgar are three Viking warriors in a dragon-head longboat.
Armed to the blackened teeth with brazen breast-plates and pert blonde plaits, they have charted history’s waters and come to invade Anglo-Saxon England.
They will pillage your village, rattle your cattle, smoke your hamlet and take tribute money from King Ethelred. He’s unready… are you?!
Fanny By-Gaslight the Victorian Flower Seller, pedals her lovely blooms, trailing her big bustle, ‘Betty’ behind her.
She is the picture of elegance until…”Cor blimey Guv’nor!” – the Bustle has a mind of it’s own and rushes off to perform a jolly jig revealing Fanny’s foundation garments!
Luna and Starburst share the flower power as they sing snatches of Joanie Mitchell and search for free love. Their caftans waft in the summer breeze as they interact with the audience, making out shapes in the purple clouds! Far out man.
