Gifford's Circus

Giffords Circus is a traditional English circus which tours the Cotswolds area every summer.[1]

Established in 2000, Giffords Circus is a small circus company, founded and run by Nell and Toti Gifford,[2] that tours market towns of the south west. When not on the road the fouders concentrate on landscape architecture. Nell is the sister of the designer Emma Bridgewater.

Tours

  • 2004 – "Pearl"
  • 2006 – "Joplin": with a 1960s theme
  • 2008 – "Caravan": set in a horse fair around 1900
  • 2010 – "Yasmine": inspired by the life of equestrienne Yasmine Smart, who played herself in the production
  • 2011 – "War and Peace": themed around Napoleon's disastrous intrusion into Russia, seen though the eyes of a Russian aristocratic family
  • 2012 – "The Saturday Book"
  • 2013 – "Lucky 13": based on the culture clash resulting from a high art opera- and ballet-themed circus show that is gatecrashed by a rowdy Transylvanian travelling circus[3][4]
  • 2014 – "The Thunders": with the Greek Gods as its theme
  • 2015 – "Moon Songs": blending cultural images of the moon with the story of two young Ethiopian jugglers dreaming of fame
  • 2016 – "The Painted Wagon": centred on a group of 19th-century American homesteaders[5][6][7]
  • 2017 – with maritime themes, and telling the story of the circus visiting the 17th-century Spanish court[8]

References

  1. ↑ "Home". Giffords Circus. Retrieved 2018-05-15.
  2. ↑ Hughes, Tim (2018-06-14). "Giffords Circus comes to Oxford with all new show". Oxford Mail. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-05. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
  4. ↑ Giffords Program 2013
  5. ↑ Pilston, Tom (26 June 2016). "The Painted Wagon Wild West Show – in pictures". The Guardian.
  6. ↑ MacAlister, Katherine (2016-06-16). "Giffords is back. But is The Painted Wagon it's [sic] best show yet?". The Oxford Times. Retrieved 2016-06-27.
  7. ↑ "A Review of the Wondeful Giffords Circus, Gloucestershire". Lewis Loves. 2016-10-29. Retrieved 2017-06-05.
  8. ↑ Sutherland, Gill (2017-06-12). "Review: Giffords Circus 2017". Stratford-upon-Avon Herald. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
  • Official website
  • BBC review, 2004
  • Gifford, Nell (29 May 2014). "The bluestocking who ran off to join the circus: the uplifting story of how, to get over her mother's illness, an Oxford graduate started a very old-fashioned circus that's become a British favourite". MailOnline. Retrieved 17 June 2018.


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