Performances variously at 3pm, 7pm and 8pm.
NOFIT State, the company behind contemporary circus BIANCO, has chosen Limerick for the international premier of its new season show. Bound for a big top within Culture Factory for June 14 to 22, brought here by City of Culture offices, the Limerick production will be the first staging of 2014′s format.
“We have a 550 person capacity – it’s the way were present the work which is a promenade show,” creative producer Tom Rack tells Arts page. “Performers will be below, above, around, beside and we like think, inside the audience as well. It’s a really good quality experience for everybody”.
The spaceship structure of the arena is crowned by giant towers, confirming an otherwordly experience enhanced by the live band on stage with a total of 20 performers.
The Plassey Road venue premiers 2014′s international tour: “We’ve brought in new artists, found new people, worked on refreshing the music and choreography”.
Rack describes the finale sequence as a “just breathtakingly beautiful image, sensational. Then here’s an amazing sequence with a girl in a massive white dress and it’s the cinematic scale of all which evolves into an amazing piece of circus”.
Anticipate tightwire acts, a juggler “whose style and quality is burning to watch, trapeze artists filling the air”. All is underscored by a live musical performance to heighten levels of “excitement and spectacle”.
Photo by Richard Davenport taken at Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Tickets from Lime Tree Theatre, www.limetreetheatre.ie for ages eight to 80 for a stand-only show of two hours duration.
Culture Factory’s rocking village of local food and beverage providers and free parking make fuller this venture, with tickets a modest €22.50. Discounts for groups. See also www.limerickcityofculture.ie
