New Acts for 2015

Bedlam Oz Big Mob

A majestic slinkie walkabout featuring 2,3 or 4 slinkies. This captivating walkabout has become both a festival and corporate

staple all over the world and combining bursts of comic energy with gentle fun audience participation. 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Slinkie Love

Join in with the oohs and ahhhs as you witness this charming story of 2 huge slinkies falling in love.

5 x 12 mins shows

Familie

Whirling and writhing in vast squirming slinkies.

Familie is a 4 person compelling atmospheric performance that is both delightful and dynamic . 4 x 15 mins shows

Molly Orange Little Wonder

Acro balance and physical theatre combine on a journey from the everyday into the wonderful, creating a world,

where, as in Alice in Wonderland, familiar and small things have a habit of suddenly transforming in scale. 2 x 30 mins shows

Bobbins

The Borrowers are on the loose! Follow them as they walk, run, jump over and perform acrobatics on their giant

bobbin. 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Spitz & Co Gloriator

In 2000 director Ridley Scott brought you Gladiator; an epic film of bravery, honour and sacrifice.

Now, nearly fifteen years later, the world-renowned French actress Gloria Delaneuf and her UK tour manager Josephine Cunningham, bring you Gloriator; an awe-inspiring production of bravery, honour, and costumes made

out of cardboard. 2 x 30 mins shows

Dan the Hat and DJ Bobble

Dan the Hat & DJ Bobble are a street performance duo bringing together laughter, music and juggling in a show they

call "comedy scratchin & catchin”. 3 x 30 mins shows

Le Navet Bete - Rumpus

That's right! The chaos causing clowns are back with a brand new outdoor show. Join the 4 boys from Le Navet Bete once

again and experience a whole new level of ridiculousness. Expect characteristic live music, audience interaction, circus influences, downright silliness and a garden vacuum....

2 x 30 mins shows

Matt Barnard's Gordon Blur the Juggling Chef

Kitchen implements and the ingredients of gourmet meals become highly flung props for this culinary themed

comedy juggling piece. A one or two man 30 minute show or walkabout entertainment.

Jones and Barnard - Dr Jones and Professor Barnard's Medicine Show

Purveyors of the finest 'Tosh', an elixir of youth and vitality; the esteemed intellectuals Jones and Barnard have unleashed

their own brand of quackery, healing and duplicitous doctoring on an unsuspecting audience.

In the great tradition of the travelling medicine show, a series of entertainments and distractions will be presented in addition to the demonstrations in the form of occasional songs, dancing and jokes.

Creams, balms, scents and liniments included. Available from Easter 2015 2 x 45 mins shows

Noisy Oyster The Meanderthals

Two fantasy walkabout characters carry their enormous loads humming to themselves. Their roving, blinking eyes view the passersby with interest, and occasionally they issue a gigantic sneeze. When they slow to a halt they are

spurred on by the little disgruntled passengers stowed away in the luggage. 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Plain Bob

Plain Bob is an innocent and gentle show with no words, an interactive audience adventure under Bob’s umbrella

world. As the audience watches, the stage is created from suitcases, an umbrella, and a rain coat. 2 x 35/40 mins shows

Antwan

Sonic Twins

Alien-looking, the brothers amaze and surprise audiences. The twins move straight through the crowd. They observe,

tail and follow people in the public and sometimes they challenge them to a bit of dancing.

Artizani - Bees!

With typical panache and imagination, Artizani and Avanti Display collaborate on a new walkabout performance and installation. A multi-sensory experience in which audiences get up close and personal with our deluxe and sumptuous

beehives.

In a secular ritual the hive is processed shoulder high by two devotees of the esteemed bee. Once set down and consecrated, step forward: Hear the BEE! Feel the Bee! Smell the Bee! Taste the Bee! And if you dare, put your eye up to

the hive and See the Bee! With a hilarious sting in the tail this is a miniature installation with a huge visual impact. 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Cirq De’Light – The Nutkins

Hide those nuts -The Nutkins are on tour! Enchantingly squirrel-like and riddled with intrigue, Mr and Mrs Nutkin are set to charm the pants off children and adults alike. This darling pair of red squirrels might be old but they are ready to take the

world (and its nuts) by storm. 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Creature Encounter Teddy & Otto

The most friendly, funny and furry characters you're likely to meet have come to visit. Meet Otto the Otter and Teddy

the Fox as they wheel a wooden cart through the crowd. Laden with ancient magic, props and relics from the greatest fairytales ever to be told, Otto and Teddy invite anyone who wishes to test their knowledge in a quiz of

fairytale fantasy! 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Squawk

Two vibrant birds in all the colours of the rainbow explore their surroundings with inquisitive beaks and joyful

squawks. Marvel at the exotic beauty of these larger than life avian amigos. Make your friendship felt by stepping forward for a bright and brilliant photo and please remember, they won't bite but they may decide on being friends

forever! 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Stickleback Plasticus - Grandparkour

Pioneers of O.A.P. freerunning, Pat and Dennis arthriticly stumble into the world of urban arts – reinventing parkour for the

Stannah generation. The GrandparKours hurtle headlong towards street furniture and the post office in a mildly reckless fashion.

3 x 30 mins walkabout

Thingumajig Theatre Yeshe the Yak

Yeshe is a gentle, mysterious and curious yak. He’s very fond of children especially those who might carefully stroke his

nose or tickle his fringe. 3 x 40 mins walkabout

Flying Dodos

Despite all the odds, an unknown subspecies of the dodo has been discovered! Much larger than their extinct

cousins and able to fly (sort of), Charles and Amelia, two relics of a bygone era, are very excited to be travelling the world to see what they’ve been missing.

3 x 40 mins walkabout

Plucky the Chicken

Meet Plucky: our very big, very friendly and possibly over curious chicken. Accompanied by her hen-pecked sidekick, Plucky

guarantees to bring fun, farmyard frolics, music and song to everyone. Egg-xactly what your event needs. 3 x 40 mins walkabout

Hippochondriac

Part animal and part mechanical, Hieronymus the hippo is feeling under the weather. Fortunately, his companion

doctor/mechanic is only too eager to show you what’s under the bonnet to diagnose the problem. What follows is an array of puppet shows built into the troubled creature revealing the origin of his malaise.

3 x 40 mins walkabout

Haywood Hix Works

A Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg-esque contraption, assembled by two, 'earnest', non-speaking, workmen, using items

taken out of a garden shed. With a roof opening, cat flinging finale.

A significant piece of work that can dominate a street, with elements of the amateur tinkerer, steam engine enthusiasts, the Mousetrap game, the Englishman's obsession with a tea break...

This show has a gently funny build, classic visual clowning, a subtle narrative and slowly developing tension, with an impressive climax involving the oversized chain reaction machine and a big finish that brings whoops of applause from any

audience. 2 x 35/40 mins shows

Fried Gold Theatre

Adventurous Mr. Toad

Toad's spontaneous antics and humorous attempts to involve everyone in his schemes, grab the attention of

passersby. Meanwhile, Ratty lounges around handing out wit and merriment and ginger beer.

Also available with Mr Mole. 3 x 30 mins walkabout

Scott Walker Up Against The Wall presents 'If You Go Down In The Woods Today'

A free artistic opportunity for all ages to create strange and wonderful fancies with super layers of colour.

Come and add to a 5 metre wooded wall and help bring a magic forest to life with amazing paint pens and your own imagination.

Flossy and Boo

Flossy and Boo have run away from the circus to set up their own travelling Curiosity Shop, traversing the globe and collecting stories, songs and trinkets for their little cart. See their amazing (and rather unbelievable) tales! Hear the

extraordinarily-well-crafted-and-never-at-all-silly songs! Smell (?!) the extraordinary characters they have met along the way! - Jeffrey the disheartened Jellyfish, Charles the long lost love (who just so happens to look exactly like a member of the audience, strange...), and the elusive and mischievous Common Cold (look out he’s behind you,

atchoo!). Flossy and Boo will also introduce you to the members of their bizarre circus family:

With live original music, physical theatre and comedy, Flossy and Boo’s Curiosity Shop is an interactive theatre show - there’s something for everyone in Flossy and Boo’s rather peculiar world.

Shows and walkabouts available

The much anticipated return of: Plunge Boom

The Vegetable Nannies

The Vegetable Nannies are two everyday gardeners who’ve taken their young vegetables out of the ground for a day trip.

So, if you see an old pram brimming with some beautiful bouncing baby vegetables, come over and say hello. No doubt the nannies could use a hand in feeding and taking care of the little family that includes Beverly the cabbage, David the shy little

marrow and many more.

The Allotment

The Vegetable Nannies invite you to join them in their allotment for a bit of gardening and childcare. Come and get stuck into the daily duties of feeding, bathing and caring for the baby fruits and vegetables or, on the other hand, just put your

feet up and watch life’s little miracles emerge from the ground.

3 x 45 mins

To book these acts please contact:

fools@foolsparadise.co.uk

+44 (0)1392 454 160 www.foolsparadise.co.uk