Sunny Circus comes to town
CIRQUE du Soleil is delighted to announce a brand-new UK arena tour with OVO, coming to Glasgow’s Hydro.
What is OVO? Well, it’s described as “a celebration of nature and co-existence.”
Sill less the wiser about this theme? OVO means egg in Portuguese, and the show is said to feature a “headlong rush into a colourful ecosystem teeming with life.”
Yes, it’s about insects, and bugs and all sort of wondrous, crawling, flying, dive-bombing, swooping creatures.
When a mysterious egg appears in their midst, the insects are awestruck and intensely curious about this iconic object that represents the enigma and cycles of their lives.
What’s inside the egg? Regardless, you can be sure Cirque du Soleil won’t disappoint in terms of production values, sheer colour and fascination value.
Fifty performing artists from 17 countries will specialize in many acrobatic acts including the UK’s Alanna Baker, who plays the Black Spider in the show.
Barker was crowned gymnastics European Champion in 2011 and won Bronze in the World Championships in 2012.
OVO has already been staged before more than five million people worldwide since the show premiered in Montreal in 2009 as a Big Top show.
Now it’s moved on to a larger scale visiting major arenas.
Cirque du Soleil, September 5 – 9, The SSE Hydro.
Hyde and seek.
REMEMBER when Phil Daniels was a little scooter boy in Quadrophenia? More recently, he slipped into Albert Square and did lots of arguing in Cockney.
Now, we can enjoy a taste of Daniels in a new theatre spectacular.
The multi-talented actor will have the chance to reveal part of his range when he plays characters from Edinburgh and Glasgow. Split personality? You bet.
The actor stars in Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde at the King’s Theatre Edinburgh in this new production, adapted by David Edgar.
“I’m playing Jekyll as a posh Edinburgh doctor and Hyde as a Glaswegian,” said Daniels.
“I’m burying myself in all that, getting deep into characters. You have to put the work in. Although I don’t get deep enough to go around murdering people, of course.”
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde tells the Gothic story of a secret experiment in which the upright and respectable Dr Henry Jekyll splits his personality into two, releasing the fiendish and murderous Edward Hyde.
April 10 – 14.
Stringing along.
VIOLINIST André Rieu and his orchestra will be performing at the SSE Hydro tomorrow.
André Rieu and the Johann Strauss orchestra, whose shows are screened in cinemas and have broken box office records, has a new album released.
Amore, it’s said, is “A recording filled with some of the world’s greatest love songs performed in Rieu’s unique styl.
features versions of Love Me Tender and The Impossible Dream.
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