Today is the last chance to attend a travelling theatrical act with a difference.
Directed by Árpád Schilling, the National Centre of Circus Arts (France)’s Urban Rabbits combines the unique attractions of a circus performance with contemporary theatre.
Urban Rabbits draws the mosaic portrait of a community of funny people who don’t do anything like anyone else… and which also questions the traditionally accepted ways of living together.
The result is a poetic fantasy in which actors with particular skills fly through the air, glide several metres above the ground on a rope or a Chinese pole, fly off into acrobatic stunts or soar to straps, all to the rhythm of a little orchestra playing on stage.
All this is brought to life by exceptionally gifted Hungarian director Árpád Schilling. Acclaimed by European critics for his radical adaptations of The Seagull and Hamlet, Schilling sees the theatre as a place of communion, welcoming and intimate, based on improvisation and performance.
Undoubtedly he is the artist most capable of putting into the ring the 16 students of the 21st class of the National Centre for Circus Arts.
To take up this challenge, Schilling started with a simple premise: firstly to sound out the desires, fears and backgrounds of these students on the point of becoming professionals, then to use the pieces of this human matter to create a story of rabbits that become urban, with a a love story as a background. The result is a poetic fantasy, made to measure, in which the “actors” with particular skills fly through the air, glide several metres above the ground on a rope or a Chinese pole, fly off into acrobatic portés or soar attached to straps, all to the rhythm of a little orchestra playing on stage.
Today’s performance of Urban Rabbits is the last to be put up locally. It will be held at the grounds of the St Theresa College, Girls Junior Lyceum, Mriehel, Birkirkara (just off Mdina Road, between Simonds Farsons Cisk and the old aqueduct).
Doors open at 19:00 hrs sharp. Entrance fee: €5
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