BA Final Major Projects

Thursday 1 – Saturday 3 May, 7:30pm

Join us over three nights to experience this mini-festival of new works, presented by this year’s graduating students from Circomedia’s degree programme.

This is a fantastic opportunity to see the circus talent of the future perform in a stunning professional venue.

Scroll to the bottom of this page to book your tickets!

Thursday 1 May

For ages 18+ only

Content Warnings: Adult themes & Flashing lights. Please check each performance listing for content warnings.

Mining My Own Business

Ciaran Innes

Can the grit of the community overcome the oppression of unfair employers and landlords? This show is about the adventurous settlers in the biggest mountains in the country, mastering dynamite and rock to develop what became the largest quarry in the world and largest source of self employment in the area.

It explores the history of the land being seized by the wealthy and the cost of living being raised beyond reason while working conditions became harder and harder. This piece is suitable for families.

My Sleepless Mind

Emba Wimbush

You step onto the first stair, its surface cold and smooth under your foot. As you descend, the walls begin to warp. Another step. You take a breath; the air is hot and thick on your tongue. An unfamiliar taste lingers. Was the light always this colour? It flickers. You continue spiralling down into yourself, to where colours are born, and dreams hang in the balance. Shadows form words. You reach the bottom. But it isn’t yours – it’s mine. Let me show you.

Content Warnings: Adult themes, Swearing & Flashing lights.

Will You Tell Them I Was Real?

Envee Greene

A queer horror spectacle of transformation, defiance, and the body unchained.

A surreal and provocative performance unraveling reality, identity, and metamorphosis, this journey plunges into the grotesque, the beautiful, and the unhinged—where flesh, movement, and myth collide. The body is a battleground. The body is a statement. The body is real.

For ages 18+ only

Content Warnings:
Themes of body horror, dysmorphia, and dysphoria
Blood imagery, including film depictions of bodily transformation
References to medication and medical trauma
Loud sounds, sudden noises, and intense lighting effects
Exploration of eating disorders, self-perception, and consumption
Themes of censorship, surveillance, and institutionalisation

This is a queer, visceral, and unapologetically political performance. It does not soften itself for comfort.

Viewer discretion is advised.

When the body speaks, will you listen?

Friday 2 May

These pieces are family friendly!

Throwing Stuff Until It Sticks

Ieuan Waller

Are you ready for juggling, pure juggling, nonstop juggling, incredible juggling, jaw-dropping juggling!

Watch as the juggling master performs lightning-fast juggling, high-flying juggling, mind-blowing juggling, and gravity-defying juggling! Balls juggling, clubs juggling, rings juggling, job juggling, emotional juggling – every kind of juggling you can imagine! This is juggling madness, juggling brilliance, the ultimate juggling experience! Don’t blink or you’ll miss the most thrilling juggling performance of your life! Nothing beats this Juggling extravaganza.

Juggling, juggling, juggling – this show is all about juggling!

Buzzy Bee

Grace Hart

Buzzy Bee is an educational circus theatre production aimed at children, combining aerial and ground-based performances to tell the story of a Blossom, a brave young bee on a quest to find a new hive.

Through exiting acrobatics and engaging storytelling, the show introduces children to fascinating facts about bees and their vital role in the environment. With an interactive storyline, lively characters, and surprising moments throughout, this project engages young audiences while imparting important lessons in an entertaining way.

By blending circus arts with education, Buzzy Bee aims to spark curiosity and inspire environmental awareness in the next generation.

Saturday 3 May

Age guide 12+. Please check each performance listing for content warnings.

Chiaroscuro

Marika Cheyne

Chiaroscuro is an exploration of extremes – the radiant intensity of creation and the depths of stillness, the fantastical and the inevitable.

Through the interplay of aerial silks, trapeze, movement, and painting, this performance embodies the tension between light and shadow, not as opposites but as interdependent forces. Moments of brilliance burn dangerously bright before dissolving into darkness where lies reflection, transformation, and the potential for resurgence.

Chiaroscuro embraces this cyclical nature of existence, revealing beauty in the spaces where both light and shadow coexist, contemplating the ephemeral nature of existence, urging us to find beauty in impermanence.

Content warnings: flashing lights, loud noises, contains themes of mental health

Joy

Sallie Chedburn

In Joy, you are invited to experience a personal exploration of the many faces of happiness, witnessing reflections on what it means to truly experience joy.

Sallie blends vulnerability and exhilaration as you are taken on an open hearted and raw exploration of authentic joy, hedonistic pleasure, and everything in between.

Through the use of aerial, theatre and balloons, Joy becomes a physical expression of emotion – fragile, powerful, and freeing. Throughout, Sallie shares intimate reflections on the complexities of joy, inviting the audience to feel the euphoria, freedom, and connection.

Content Warning: Loud balloon inflation sound.

Delusive

Indica Dhillon Peters

Drift into a world where dreams unravel, and reality rips at its seams. Suspended in the space between the waking and sleep, shadows dance in the darkness and nightmares take shape.

This solo performance explores the depth of subconscious in a breathtaking spectacle of the abstract and absurd, blurring the line between body and illusion. Lose yourself in a surreal journey through the unknown as familiar dissolves and the impossible takes flight.

Dates & Times: Thursday 1 – Saturday 3 May, 7:30pm
Tickets: £12 full price, £8 concessions & students
Babes in Arms tickets are available for the family friendly performances on Friday 2 May.
Location: St Paul’s Church, BS2 8SJ

The seating configuration for our performances is flexible, but as standard, our main seating area is raked. The front rows are level and accessible, and aisle seats are available. Please get in touch to reserve seats in these rows are required.

Please note that seating in our Gallery is accessed via a flight of stairs and is not accessible for audience members who may find stairs difficult or impractical.

Wheelchair and step-free access can be found at our side entrance. We use What 3 Words to give you an exact location on a map. Follow the link below to find this entrance.

Side Entrance Exact Location: https://what3words.com/mostly.ledge.chop

Main Entrance: Stepped Access

For performances, our main double doors serve as the principle entrance. This entrance consists of three steps up to the Box Office foyer, and three further steps up to the main building. We use What 3 Words to give you an exact location on a map. Follow the link below to find this entrance.

Main Entrance Exact Location: https://what3words.com/total.offer.native

Free Tickets for Carers

If you are a dedicated carer accompanying a paying visitor who is disabled, you are eligible for a free ticket (limited to one carer per paying visitor). To book your ticket, please give us a call on 0117 9477288 or email boxoffice@circomedia.com.

Circomedia does not issue refunds unless the event is cancelled or postponed to a date on which you are unable to attend.

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