The Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus Headline Brighton Fringe International circus show comes to Freerange This week, The Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus have confirmed as a headline act for the Brighton Fringe Festival. The circus will present their biggest ever show, One of Our Clowns is Missing at Freerange a unique temporary structure from 1 – 8 May 2010. A scorching production of terrifying stunts and grotesque gags One of Our Clowns is Missing draws on the continuum of circus and freak show, creating a richly imagined and horribly plausible parallel universe. With a cast of human oddities The Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus combine neo-cabaret, performance art, fetish and burlesque, to create a fragmented twenty first century, acid soaked apocalyptic vision of the future. The circus headlined The Circus Big Top, Glastonbury Festival in 2009, with a show that firmly stuck two fingers up at the Big Top’s family friendly tradition and established new links between the Circus Field and Mutoid Waste’s Trash City. One of Our Clowns is Missing stars Lucifire as the whip-cracking Ring Mistress and her loyal, snarling monster-pet The Pain Proof Tusk. Big Grey as the Voodoo Master, The Baron as the Dandy Strongman and Fancy Chance (reigning alternative Miss World) as the Hapless Usherette. Alongside a multitude of gleefully macabre clowns, playfully dynamite juggling, chainsaw wielding and aerial hair hanging, the show evokes memories of The Pilo Family Circus, a novel by Will Elliott, and Todd Browings’ 1932 film Freaks. Performances are nightly from 10:00 PM – 12:30 AM, Saturday 1st – Saturday 8th May 2010 at Freerange, St Peter's Church Gardens, London Road, BN1 4GU. Director of Future Tents, Robin Collings, said: “I am a modern circus addict. I believe that New British Circus is culturally important and is under-rated internationally. Earlier this year I flew out to see Archaos’ new show and it made me think UK circus really rocks! I want to show the world how cutting edge and high quality new British circus can be. The Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus are all of these things and I know that audiences are going to be affected by this show. That’s what Freerange is all about.” Bizarre Magazine, said: “If you’re after a sophisticated, safe and heart warming performance don’t go and see the Fire Tusk Pain Proof Circus. If, however, you’re in the business for a thrill seeking, blood thirsty, fire breathing, whip cracking, head f*** of a show then go see these guys. Go now! Run!” Freerange is a temporary structure by Future Tents and a brand new site for Brighton Fringe. Future Tents champion innovation for recreation, providing stunning versatile structures that enlarge the horizons of the events industry. Future Tents is a company of engineers, artistic producers and production managers with fifteen years experience working at high profile events in the UK and abroad.
