Review: Circus Of Horrors Show

We went to see the Circus of Horrors at the Orchard Theater in Dartford on Sunday20th March 2011.

The wildest show on earth, gory, sexy, amazing, funny and very entertaining.

Although we have seen them before it was great to see again. 

The whole cast of performers are all extremely talented in their own unique way and also professional you can see they are all one big happy weird family! They work superbly as a team, very polished and well managed without looking like it!

The whole performance just oozes creativity and is the brain child of Dr Haze whose dad was a lion trainer and was born into the circus, he ran away to try to be a rock and roll performer but when that didn’t work out came back to the circus life. The Circus of Horrors is really an amalgamation of his upbringing and his dreams. Read more about the history here http://www.artshub.co.uk/uk/news-article/profiles/performing-arts/career-profile-dr-haze-circus-of-horrors-169438

As already quoted it really is "All killer thriller and no Filler"! The whole show is packed from start to finish with content. Before the show was due to start a couple of the cast performers a zombie clown and a Quasimodo hunchback were warming up the crowd with silly jokes and antics very amusingly the zombie clown was placing a yellow hazard floor cleaning sign up in front of the theater usherettes skirt the sign said danger slippery wet surface and that was totally impromptu. They had members of the audience out on stage to take part in their antics and walked around the audience in the interval performing tricks with peoples beer and ice creams.  My partner got picked on for an arm wrestling contest with the zombie clown as he does stand out like a sore thumb all muscles and tattoos, needless to say the zombie clown lost!  Value for money it certainly is.

If you have never been to see the Circus of Horrors you are missing out big time.

The show contains some of the greatest, most bizarre Circus acts Dr Haze is the main man of the show. He is involved in some illusions but is mainly there to relay the story via song which he does extremely well you can tell the show is his baby and his work of art. There is a story to this show yet it is a little hard to follow as you are more aware of the performances going on around rather than the story behind it. We know from the beginning it is based in an Asylum for the criminally insane and that’s about as far as I got with the story line as it is all so captivating you don’t care about the story any more.

When the show begins there seems to be too many tricks and horrors going on and you don’t know which to look at first, but within seconds it becomes clear that each artiste will have their own time to ‘shine’. The gymnastics, the crude antics and the ever amazing illusions have you sitting there wondering what on earth they can do to amaze you next, yet it just keeps coming.

The girl in a bottle is a very bendy girl who can contortion herself into unbelievable positions making the audience gasp and cringe and just how supple she really is. Another bendy girl spent allot of the time just mingling around on stage walking crab style (bent over backwards walking on hands and feet).  The audience gasped with disbelief in parts, imagine seeing a man ripped in half or watching a girl have her throat slit open. The illusions really are made to look realistic and spectacular.

All this plus some very skillful  Ariel silk shows – (I would so love to learn this art) and a girl they call the vampiric crow woman suspended only by her hair, Jugglers, sword swallower with forked tongue, Voodoo Warriors, Knife throwers and my personal favourite Wee man Professor Daniel Von Henry who gets the most laughs during this performance a very rude very cute midget in a kilt who will not wear underpants and eats light bulbs and uses his eye-socket as a bottle opener and will astound you with his amusing tricks and what he can attach to parts of his anatomy.

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A great variety of the weirdest acts and characters you will ever see put together with great humor to entertain you, even when they aren’t involved with the act at that time they never forget they are on stage and being observed.

A night out at the ‘Circus Of Horrors ‘is an excellent way to spend an evening and a must for all those who like a different style of theater. The Circus of Horrors tour around the world rocking and shocking wherever they go!

I just loved it so much the first time that I went  that I go every time now the ‘Circus Of Horrors’ is in town or nearby and am never disappointed.  I also see some of the same faces they seem to have their own cult following they also produce a variety of shows so you can go often and not see the same acts, very clever.

I would say it’s not PC, It’s not family friendly.  It is a fun and a very enjoyable show with a hell of a lot of skill on stage and in the air!  The show contains some nudity & language of an adult nature, it is not suitable for children or people of a nervous disposition, don’t take your Gran!

The music is great too a mix of rock and heavy metal with Marc Bolan and Alice Cooper influences, although I am sure they adapt the music to their audience as when I saw them at a fetish club the music was more Gothic and punky so very versatile performers, Nearly all the music and certainly the lyrics are written by the cast and it is all really well put together.  They are even releasing a single - another perfect outlet for a bunch of creative people.  If only I was 20 years younger I would run away to join the circus!

An absolutely brilliant show!!!!

You must check this out You tube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=fUx-X0wUm5g

To find out more visit The Circus Of Horrors website www.circusofhorrors.co.uk or their profile here you will find them under several categories in our Business Directory check in Exhibitions and Events. The UK tour will be coming to an end in May so do be quick to catch them tour dates on our whats on calendar and on their web site.