French Acrobats in Zagreb Youth Theatre

Every performance of the ‘Tailteul’ show is unique and different, which makes it the premiere and last performance at the same time.

The show “Tailteul” by the French art group La Scabreuse opened the 3rd festival of new circus at the Zagreb Youth Theatre (ZKM) during which eight artist groups of the modern circus from France, Italy, Spain, Finland and Croatia will perform the next six days.

Internationally renowned choreographer Jordi L. Vidal is the choreographer of the performance and Jean-Michel Guy, a renowned circus theoretician, analyst and publicist, is the director.

The performers are a juggler, an acrobat and musician in search of sense that keeps eluding them. Questions are asked and there are no answers. Identity crises are a constant in the global world, is the French message.

The mixture of acrobatics, juggling and music is followed by a visual absurdity. The actors are confined in a white box with writing, symbols, drawings and markings.

Theatre surprise for Zagreb’s audience

This circus production is specific because it is created on the spot, adjusting to the locale and moment of its performance. Every performance of the show is unique and different, which makes it the premiere and final performance at the same time. The Zagreb audience was thrilled with the theatre surprise created only for them when majorettes marched on the stage and the musician spurted bizarre sentences in Croatian. The artists skilfully included Croatian brands alongside world known names, so, enumerating Microsoft, McDonald’s, Marlboro, they included Dukat, Badel and other Croatian producers.

The visual spectacle showed how a circus skill can contribute to creating an unusual theatre performance.