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Circus Flora's 27th show is inspired by Georges Melies' 1902 film, A Trip to the Moon, and features all your favorite Flora performers.
Let's say (hypothetically) you're a cynical 25-year-old who has never been to the circus and you happen to have tickets to Circus Flora's 2012 incarnation, The Wizard, after a particularly grownup day filled with pesky grownup problems. Stipulate... More »
With his cherry-red cap, tie and nose, Nino the Clown is the most readily recognizable member of the Circus Flora troupe that charms audiences every May. Nino's real name is Giovanni Zoppé; He was once the scion of a sixth-generation circus family in Italy; now he has aged into one of the family patriarchs. When Nino is not here, which is eleven months of the year, he performs with his own family circus. Then in May he comes home, as it were, to Circus Flora, and we are all a little... More »
How do you like your theater? Do you like it high-flying or lowbrow? In your face or coolly sophisticated? Circus Flora has all the above. Are you looking for educational programs that encourage the participation of students? They've got it. Do you want a company that offers a track record of solidity? Circus Flora has been entertaining St. Louis audiences every spring for 22 years. And though its namesake, Flora the elephant, is now grazing in a sanctuary in Tennessee, the gentle bonhomie... More »
How do you like your theater? Do you like it high-flying or lowbrow? In your face or coolly sophisticated? Circus Flora has all the above. Are you looking for educational programs that encourage the participation of students? They've got it. Do you want a company that offers a track record of solidity? Circus Flora has been entertaining St. Louis audiences every spring for 22 years. And though its namesake, Flora the elephant, is now grazing in a sanctuary in Tennessee, the gentle bonhomie that she brought to the proceedings still provides this one-ring circus with its imprimatur. And it's all done on the most intimate terms. Someone once described a poem as "the shortest distance between you and the subject." By that definition, what a viewer experiences every June under the small big top at Circus Flora is theatrical poetry.
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