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Hawk's Well Theatre & Cairde Sligo Arts Festival

Trash Test Dummies Circus

Pro Tours Theatre

Thurs 11 July, 2024,
7pm
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Date Thurs 11 July, 2024, 7pm
Location Hawk's Well Theatre
Price €15/10 u18s/45 for four tickets
Three performers standing in a wheelie bin wearing hard hats

Put your bins out! Tonight is bin night and the Trash Test Dummies are on duty! These are no ordinary bins, they are chock-a-block full of surprises and the Dummies are in for some serious fun and a wild imaginative adventure.

The Dummies warm up their formations and kick things off with some bin ballet. Delightful discoveries are aplenty, jokes abound, silliness ensues and things escalate into an acrobatics routine.

The Dummies get sporty playing all the games they know from cricket to baseball, pretending to be sporting heroes before their antics go a little too far and they end up in a riotous mess! They’ll need some super hero energy to sort it out and channel their best impressions of Batman. The super-sized fun finishes with a dexterous hat routine where the Dummies pass and juggle bowler hats.

Things take a nasty turn as the sound of wild applause turns to gunshots and the Dummies race to find shelter from the war zone that has sprung up around them. Hiding behind barricades they find a bomb they can’t dispose of which is causing chaos and the three battlers find themselves in jail.

They can feel sorry for themselves or they can do something about it, and the Dummies make a grand escape, busting out a window and starting an epic chase. Police sirens turn to ambulances when one Dummy takes a fall and things keep sliding downhill. Next thing we know we’re having a Dummy funeral.

All is not lost! Mix ups were had, nobody died, and this is cause to celebrate!
The Dummies round out their adventures with an epic drumming and juggling routine that raises the roof and bring it all home like heroes with a spoof on Chariots of Fire. Now THAT’s how you take the bins out!

“Circus and acrobatic show perfect for families.” Edinburgh Festival For Kids ★★★★★

“Brilliant stuff!” The Edinburgh reporter ★★★★★

“Terrific Acrobats, wonderful clowns”or “Three men took to the stage with wheelie bins, what happened next blew our minds. The Funny Tonne ★★★★★

“filled with hi-jinx, acrobatics dancing and juggling but where they really excel is their clowning around and slapstick humor.” Ed Fest Mag ★★★★★

“With a mixture of classic clowning, slapstick and acrobatics, this comedy circus is perfect for families.” Fest (Edinburgh) ★★★★

“What kids and adult so readily enjoy is the adept, unadulterated mischief.” The Times, UK ★★★★

“A show that barely pauses to catch its breath; a dynamic and fun show suitable for all the family” Broadway Baby ★★★★

“Skills you’d see during shows by Cirque du Soleil or Circus Oz, it’s like nothing I’ve previously seen." The Herald Sun ★★★★ ½

“Dungeree’d Dummies from down under create an adventure playground out of dustbins.” The Herald Scotland ★★★★

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