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THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION Comes to Everyman Theatre

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Coming to the Everyman: A major new dance theatre performance - THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION - from the makers of The Blue Boy, Have I No Mouth and This Beach.

The show runs at the Everyman Theatre, Cork, 8.00pm now through Thursday 27th October 2016. Presented by Brokentalkers and Mermaid Arts Centre and Project Arts Centre, and written & directed by Feidlim Cannon and Gary Keegan.

The Circus Animals' Desertion is a poetic response to the imagining of nations, inspired by the Automatic Script experiments of Georgie and William Butler Yeats, in which they called upon the spirit world to assist with their creativity. It sets Yeats' romantic notions of nationhood against the brutal realities of extreme nationalism, radicalisation, xenophobia and oppression engulfing the world today.

The Circus Animals' Desertion takes the form of a collective dream, abstract, contradictory but ultimately a true expression of human nature. Through mask and dance, a panoply of characters, creatures and objects populate the stage to create an otherworld at once strange and devastatingly familiar. Sampling texts and imagery from Yeats' plays and poetry, as well as archive recordings and interviews, the piece is performed by an international cast of dancers and musicians.

The Circus Animal's Desertion opens at the Everyman Theatre, Cork, on Tuesday 25th October and runs until Thursday 27th. Tickets available from www.everymancork.com or from the Box office, telephone 021 450 1673.





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