Bladder Circus

Bladder Circus Company

The Bladder Circus already set up its tent at last year`s UNIDRAM, a tent housing both jazz musicians and actors. The founder and director since 1997, Szabolcs Szöke, is known in Hungary as a radiant personality, a (world) musician and instrument builder, as well as for his work in the dramatic and plastic arts.

»Bladder Circus«
Etno-Opera-Buffa/German première

What a mob! Poco, Dolcissima, Patetico, Tragico, Paganini. And what bladders! One careless movement and everything starts to sound. The set - an arena constructed from bamboo - is a sound-box beyond compare. In the bladder circus all you do is sit and listen. Clown-like characters float among instruments you`ve never seen before. With a fruitless enthusiasm they move from discussing the fates of musicians to complex music theory, speaking of pizzicato, of Italian arias and the famous bladder violins. The TIN-TIN orchestra ensures a good tone among the world numbers. The etno-opera-buffa combines chamber opera, circus, musical happening and absurdist-surrealist music theatre with a far-eastern aura. It is lyrical, grotesque and tragicomic at once.

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direction: Szabolcs Szöke
performer: Attila Racz, Katalin Homonnai, Laszlo Nadasi,
Domokos Szabo, Lajos Spilak, Szabolcs Szöke
musicans: Beata Palya (vocals), Frazsina Eszes (cello),
Monika Kuncsner (trombone)
when: Wednesday, June 5th, 10.30 p. m. and Thursday, June 6th, 9.00 p.m.
where: Waldschloss
duration: ca. 60 minutes