Arts Council

2003 PROGRAMME - Theatre & Dance 551

The Junebug Symphony


Take an electrifying roller-coaster ride into the realm of imagination with one of France's most innovative physical theatre companies. Created by James Thi?rr?e, grandson of Charlie Chaplin and great grandson of Eugene O Neill, The Junebug Symphony is a high energy spectacle that fuses circus, theatre, dance and music into a delicious treat. A man goes to bed and awakens to a world where he encounters an array of comically bizzare characters, from a woman whose body pours over the furniture like water, to a giant junebug that soars from the depths of a closet. Arms and legs spring from flowerpots, portraits sing arias and sleepwalkers fly on the trapeze in this surreal Alice In Wonderland-like adventure...