The 13th edition of Letní Letná, the international festival of new circus and theatre, will take place from 18 August to 4 September at Prague’s Letenské sady and the international guests are already known. The first one is an Austrian-British production Limbo, created in co-production of the Strut & Fret production house, Underbelly productions and Southbank Centre. It fuses cabaret, new circus, acrobatics, illusionism and live music. The show will be held inside an art-nouveau wooden big top furnished with the Magic Mirrors. The series of sixteen re-runs of this show will include two matinées for families with children. Other ensembles coming from abroad to perform at Letní Letná include the French Cirque Le Roux with a piece called The Elephant in the Room - combining circus and film noir – and the Australian company Circa with the show Beyond. You can buy discount tickets for all the three international guest performances from 2 March to 30 April on www.letniletna.cz, where you can also find other information and precise dates.„Limbo directed by Scott Maidment will take us to the gloomy underground ruled by top acrobatics, incredible physical performances and heart-stopping illusions,” says the director of the festival Jiří Turek. On the round stage, placed amidst the audience, appears an ensemble of artists from Montreal, New York, Marseille and Australia – the sword swallower Heather Holliday, acrobat on bars, beatboxer and clown Mikael Bres, acrobatic dancer Hilton Denis, aerial acrobat Evelyne Allard, hand-stand acrobat Danik Abishev and contortionist Aurelien Oudot. „The vital part of the performance is live music full of wild tunes, electro-acoustic sounds and playful rhythms,” adds Jiří Turek.
Limbo featured at the Adelaide Fringe festival in 2013 where it was awarded several prizes and it guested at such events as London Wonderground Festival (2013-14), Edinburgh Christmas Festival (2013), Sydney Festival (2014-15), Festival de Teatro Bogota (2014), Aalborg Spiegeltent Festival (2014), Brisbane Festival (2014), Tollwood Winter Festival, Munich (2014), Auckland Festival (2015) and Kermezzo(o) Brussels (2015).
Besides the above-mentioned international shows, Letní Letná will offer late-August premieres by several Czech companies, free open air performances, children’s performances four times a day, art and circus workshops or chill-outs in a café changing in to a vibrant bar every night.
Letní Letná has been honoured by the EFFE Label 2015-2016 - Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe, initiated by the European Festivals Association. Festivals from 31 European countries (the complete list is available at www.effe.eu) were selected for this label based on evaluation of experts and international jury.
Limbo trailer available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8AhU6midMM
More information about the show on: http://limbotheshow.com/
Source: ArtsMarketing.CZ
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