Written and Directed by Jenny de Reuck

Performed by Students in Creative Arts

Designed by Lindsey Lloyd

The Greatest Show on Earth: A Circus Story continues the tradition established at Murdoch of theatre for children with an environmental theme.

In this performance, the audience is invited to help Matilda and her puppets, Pierrot, Columbine and Harlequin, save the animals in Papa Gorgonzola’s circus from their life of misery. With a plot that takes the audience on an imaginative journey from Italy via Africa (to capture the fabled “Gorilla in the Mist”) to Western Australia, the knockabout antics of the Commedia dell’ Arte characters – as well as Punch and Judy – provide plenty of fun and excitement. Matilda will need the resourcefulness of the native Australian animals and the children of Western Australia if she is going to be able to give the circus animals their dignity and if they’re all going to take part in Fremantle’s Carnival of Freedom.

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View  details on other Children's Theatre productions...     The Secret of the Snotty Gobbles: A Fairy Story (2006)

Captain Quokka's Adventures on the High Seas (2005)     Athena Emu at the Olympics (2004)

Zak Zebra 's African Safari (2003)     Shakespeare at Sea (2002)

The Minstrel's Tale (2001)     The Greatest Show on Earth: A Circus Story (2000)

Galah's Gambit (1993)

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