Each year we have hosted Evening Events as part of the festival starting with Above and Beyond's 'Petticoats and Pirates' an outdoor aerial spectacular in 2008, and then in 2009 'The Ghosts of Porltand Square' by Nathan Hues and Dark Spark. In 2010 together with Circomdia we brought Ockham's Razor 'The Mill' into the beautiful Circomedia church.

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Anomie
Precarious

Award-winning physical theatre and multimedia performance company Precarious’s powerfully engaging new show is tipped to surpass the success of previous smash hits ‘The Factory’ and ‘Druthers’. Intense, provocative, delicate and comic, anomie is a hypnotic and surreal journey that traces the fractured pathways and phantom connections between six characters, all inhabiting the same apartment building, yet unaware of each others deviant behaviour.

Fri 25 September 8pm, 70 min, no interval. Cost: £10/£8.
St Paul’s Church, Portland Square, BS2 8SJ.
Tickets through Colston Hall Box Office – 0117 922 3686
(Monday to Saturday 10am-6pm)
Circus
Fri 25-Sun 27 Sept
8pm till late, £15, £12 (limited early bird), £8pm concession – plus booking fee. The Old Fire Station, The Island, Silver Street, BS1 2PY. Tickets available from 0117 9299008 www.bristolticketshop.co.uk

Thurs 24 Sept special sneak preview night £5. www.invisiblecircus.co.uk
Carny Ville
The Invisible Circus Proudly Presents
Carny Ville All the Fun of the Unfair

It’s a one-way ticket to Pandemonia... Ride with us to the end of the line as the Invisible Circus present the last Carny Ville at The Island. All the fun of the unfair funfair, our grand finale will include more death-defying aerial feats, the impossible, the improbable and lashings of the downright ridiculous. Come and play. Expect the unexpected. The last run of the show in May saw over 1000 visitors a night attending with many having travelled from around the country to be a part of the furore which unbelievably takes place in the austere confines of the old Bridewell Island ex police, fire and law courts complex in Bristol city centre.

Dress for the experience of a lifetime!
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Thurs 1–Sat 3 October 8pm, 80 mins with interval, Cost: £8.50. Bristol Old Vic King Street, Bristol, BS1 4ED. Tickets from Bristol Old Vic. Tel: 0117 987 7877
Sugar Beast Circus
The Sugar Beast Circus
A double bill

The Milkwood Rodeo is a performance installation inspired by holy men and Hollywood. Drawing from the diary entries and personal experience of the performers who have worked under the Indian big tops, memories and archived footage mix to create a portal where the bright lights of Broadway lead to the deserts of Rajasthan.

The Sugar Beast Circus Show is inspired by the ethnological menagerie shows of the 1800s, and the influence of Charles Darwin’s work upon entertainment. This is a show about the survival of the fittest in a contemporary climate, where performers are part animal, part skilled athlete and part gaudy showman.

Co-produced by Kate Hartoch for The Bristol Do in partnership with Bristol Old Vic.