Arts Writer
IMMERSE yourself in a magical world of dreams and imagination, interactively reviving your childhood, while ankle-deep in snow.
The award winning clown experience, Slava’s Snowshow, will come to South Africa for the first time later this year. It will be staged at Artscape Opera House from August 17 to 28. The show creates an exciting world for the audience and gradually transforms them as the story unfolds. Get ready to be catapulted back to your childhood as Slava’s Snowshow takes you on a uniquely spontaneous interactive and wildly entertaining journey under a snowy blanket.
“ Slava’s Snowshow is a unique piece of theatre that is difficult to pigeonhole in one genre. It is comedic, tragic, dramatic and will take the audience out of their day-to-day world and transport them to a beautiful, dazzling, enchanting place that will bring out your inner child. It is an unmissable theatrical feast and Showtime are proud to be bringing the show to South African audiences,” says Showtime’s Tony Feldman.
Over the past 20 years, this unique, constantly evolving comedy production has played to millions of people across the globe in more than 120 cities including New York, London, Sydney, Paris, Rome, Hong Kong, Moscow and Rio de Janeiro. The show’s creator, Slava Polunin is considered one of the most illustrious clowns in the world.
Slava’s Snowshow transports audiences to dream-like places – a bed becomes a boat in a storm-tossed sea; a woman is wrapped in cellophane and becomes flowers in a vase; a child walks in amazement inside a bubble; Slava boards a train and then becomes the train, his chimney-pot hat billowing smoke and a web of unspun cotton envelopes the audiences. The finale sees a letter turn into snowflakes, and the flakes turn into a snowstorm that whirls around the auditorium leaving the audience surrounded by snow.
The show is suitable for all ages and can be understood by all.
l Shows are at 8pm on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; at 3pm and 8pm on Saturdays; and 2pm and 6pm on Sundays, 0861 915 8000.