Flowing through the town, setting up in a city square, unfolding washing lines, flags, umbrellas and piles of bric-a-brac, there is no big top but a colony of musicians and circus performers exploding out of caravans - a joyous menagerie of circus chaos setting the town alive.
Building on the open hearted approach to collaboration with local communities of Parklife, and the thrilling, large scale circus theatre of Barricade, Open House is a daytime experience for public spaces, activating the city centre, high street or park for an hour, a day, a weekend or a week and transforming it into a circus village, where passers-by become spectators, communities become spectacle and everyone feels part of the story.
Past Show Dates
Here’s a list of where and when this show toured.
2014
John Street, Cardiff
24 May 2014
Northbrook Street, Newbury
14 - 15 June 2014
Green Man Festival, Crickhowell
15 - 17 August 2014
Appetite, Stoke-on-Trent
23 & 24 August 2014
Exeter, Town Centre
31 August 2014
Queens Gardens, Hull Freedom Festival
6 & 7 September 2014
2015
Newbury, The Corn Exchange
13 June 2015
Doncaster, Right Up Our Street
20 & 21 June 2015
Wolverhampton, Creative Black Country
11 & 12 July 2015
Walsall, Creative Black Country
25 & 26 July
Barking & Dagenham, Creative Barking & Dagenham
1 & 2 August 2015
Stratford (London), Stratford Circus
7 - 9 August 2015
Sandwell, Creative Black Country
15 & 16 August 2015
Leicester, Leicester Festivals & Events
22 & 23 August 2015
Peterborough, Viva City
5 & 6 September 2015