Circus Berzercus

This was principally a children’s event – but one it would have taken a very hard hearted adult not to enjoy!  It featured Gerald – abandoned by his partner who had gone on to better things, and left in the lurch by an agency who promised a new person would turn up at any moment … He filled in the time with some ball spinning acts ably assisted by a young volunteer.  When the new man Wallace does appear … very unsteadily on a unicycle … he does not seem to know any of the acts that Gerald wants them to perform.  This story line proved a great foil raising anxiety about whether they would be able to perform the planned acts and making them all the more impressive when, as in the 6 club juggling act, they succeeded against the odds.  The children, already very excited by earlier activities, were desperate to participate.  Gerald and Wallace were brilliant at keeping them completely engaged – but I wondered how their parents were going to get them to bed afterwards.  Adults were not let off the hook – with volunteers being sought to have clubs thrown at (well hopefully past …) them, do cartwheels and be left suspended on a plank!  Very funny, engaging and made us all want to run off and join the circus.