Review: Circus Of Horrors @ King George’s Hall, Blackburn
12:46pm Thursday 19th November 2009 in Reviews
A MAN wearing underpants and a see-through plastic poncho greeted me at King George’s Hall.
After concluding he was definitely part of the show I assured myself this show would be like no other I’d seen during the comedy festival.
The cast, which included a hunchback and a devil on stilts mingled with the audience before the show in their own slightly creepy characters, inviting a couple of people from the crowd to assist them in warming up the rest.
Among the action in the main show there was a sword-eating man, a girl playing the saxophone upside down suspended from the roof, a midget electrocuting himself and hanging some heavy objects from a certain part of his body, a couple with whips and several scantily-clad females dancing about the stage.
The whole show wasn’t quite as horrific as I expected given the title, but it was theatrical, professional and circus-like, dark, unique and complete with a rock band providing live music from the back of the stage.
All in all, it was a bit of a mad evening, but certainly an enjoyable one.
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