Creating new Blak Circus

Two years of creative R&D for one fleeting night in Frankston. 

This September, The Scarecrow & Waa finally takes the stage as part of the Kindred People Festival, drawing its first breath before an audience. What sounds like a gentle arrival will be anything but. Right up until the final moment new work resists settling, resists becoming easy. Fortunately, that's the wrestle we live for. 

Drawing from traditional Kulin storytelling, the show is contemporary and hybrid in form. Part circus. Part theatre. Part hysterical. A show full of daggy humour. 

In a landscape slipping towards extinction, Scarecrow stumbles into an unlikely friendship with Waa, the magic man, the protector, the healer, the cheeky crow. Faced with this would be companion, Waa must decide whether to hand over his responsibility or destroy him. Between them, a fragile logic emerges. Their clownish charm slowly sours into conflict. 

Suspended above the audience on a mobile counterweight apparatus, circus and sharp dialogue collide in a back and forth that could swing either way. 

We all must change to grow. Change is frightening, often painful and deeply ironic. Fate has a wicked sense of humour. 

Before we arrive in Frankston, we wanted to offer a glimpse behind the curtain with a few lines from the show. A flavor to wet the pallet.  

Waa suspended above the stage. He introduces himself with all the confidence of a man who assumes everyone already knows his name. 

WAA:  

I've got a bone to peck with Edgar Allan Poe. 

They say all press is good press. Not true. 

I've spent decades trying to undo his handiwork. I'm funny. Charming. And nothing more. 

Not some soggy feathered seagull with a one word vocabulary. 

It's defamation. I should sue him. 

Don't you think? 

Don't ya? 

Don't ya? 

Don't ya? 

Find out more or get tickets to Scarecrow and Waa here