BAMBOO
The friends break through the crowds to an empty stage, brandishing a variety of beautiful bamboo sticks, which they use to build homes and towers to, climb, fight over, vault off, spin around. They discover bundles that unfold and erect into towering sculptures, 6 metres high. The towers morph and evolve into an animated landscape on which they try to live their best lives.
BAMBOO is a show like no other; it changes the lived experience of a place for all who witness it. High Streets and civic spaces are forever changed by the memory of the bamboo circus forest that passed through like a whirlwind.
BAMBOO is available for touring in 2026 and beyond. For more information, please email our Creative Producer, Dann.
The Bamboo Circus R&D enquiry has been part of the #ImagineBamboo Is Everywhere 2023 creative enquiry.
Co-Artistic Directors Tom Rack (NoFit State Circus) & Orit Azaz
Director Mish Weaver
Circus Engineer & Rigger Tarn Aitken
Producer Dann Carroll
Music Composition R&D Peter Reynolds
Costume R&D Emily Redsell
Artists involved in R&D this year
Gemma Creasey, Andy Davies, Felix Fogg, Tiago Fonseca, Manu Melani, Luca Morrocchi, Sarah Jeneway, Sean Kempton, Phoebe Knight, Sam Lebon, Gracie Marshall, Guillem Marti, Nicoló Marzoli, Kevin McIntosh, Aurora Morano, Laura Moy, Lucie N’Duhirahe, Michaela O’Connor, Riccardo Saggese, Rosa-Marie Schmid
With thanks to
101 Outdoor Arts, Breda Louise Glavin, James Doyle-Roberts & Citrus Arts, MAKE North Docks, Pink Kiwi Catering, Joy Dove Wilkinson, Aerial Mel, and Pete Gunson
