Today the Fire Tusk Proof Circus comes to town with a WARNING: Controversial and adult themed. This avant-garde spectacular mixes aerial circus, neoburlesque and live art to create an utterly unique and captivating show. The youtube video makes me shudder but I am a sissy and they've been drawing crowds around Brighton in a host of street performances. We've had an ace review from @promette.
"Known as the Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus, I witnessed their free street performance on Saturday on one of the stages on New Street. They were at pains to point out that their street performance was child friendly, but that their 10pm show is strictly adults only. The stunts they performed in the street were enough to give me nightmares, let alone the children watching. Although the children kept screaming for more!
The troupe wear unsettling freaky make-up and all of them seem to delight in inflicting pain on themselves and each other. The first performer started with some whip tricks with a willing volunteer who did not seem to be worried about the fact that the piece of newspaper he was holding was repeatedly slashed in half. The same man then lay on a bed of nails and two volunteers were dragged out of the audience to take it in turns to stand on him. They even let the woman jump on him before getting the man and woman to stand on him at the same time. The indentations in his back afterwards were very deep but he seemed to revel in it.
Then a female clown proceeded to cover a rug in broken glass and broke a few extra bottles to prove that the glass was real before standing, walking and jumping on the glass in her bare feet. Amazingly her feet didn't even have a cut afterwards.
The clowns then ended their show with the freakiest act yet and one that I think gives the best indication of how dark their 10pm show could get. A 1930s looking chap called The Baron took off his robe and stood in leopardskin tight shorts with nothing else on him except a lot of tattoos and two nipple rings. He then hooked a cement block to the rings and lifted it off the ground with his chest. While he stood holding the cement block from his tortured nipples, one of the other clowns cam running at him with a large pickaxe and broke it in two. The audience looked on in shock and awe whilst the kids in the front row screamed for more!"
"A runaway success" Time Out
"One of the most talked about and controversial acts of the fringe" Independent Weekly.
Time: 10pm-11:30pm.
Cost: £15/13 concessions
Buy online: here
Location: St Peter's Church Gardens, Brighton
Runs until: 8 May
Facebook event page: here
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