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Giffords Circus
- Credit: Candia McKormack
Tonight we were all
Hooley-gans. and it was marvellous.
Never have I wanted more to be part of this beautiful, bohemian, wildly dysfunctional family. With the incandescent light of Nell Gifford shining brighter than ever – tonight’s show was summoned into being by Nell herself with friend and director Cal McCrystal before her death in December 2019 – the energy is electrifying.
Giffords Circus, May 2021
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The concept of
The Hooley – of faeries, goblins, pixies, elves, and other creatures not quite of this world – is exactly what we all need right now. Being transported to a Celtic land of leprechauns, pots of gold and fly agaric-induced dreaming may seem fey and a form of escapism, but what can be wrong with that? In fact, the more you think about it, the more Giffords Circus’s magical production makes so much more sense than anything else that’s happened in the last 14 months. The cure fo
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Giffords Circus is getting its show back on the road
After being postponed due to the pandemic last year, The Hooley from Giffords Circus is set to open this May 2021.
Giffords Circus is getting the show back on the road as The Hooley is set to open in May 2021.
Promising ‘magic, mystery and mischief’, Giffords Circus is set to get its new show
The Hooley back on the road this May 2021.
The Hooley was due to open in 2020 but was postponed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Providing each stage of the government’s roadmap out of lockdown is successful, Giffords Circus plans to welcome guests back to the big top from Wednesday 19 May 2021.
Charlotte Metcalf about ambition, working with Margaret Thatcher and his âundistinguishedâ life.
Iâd met Matthew Parris briefly before when I went to watch him interviewing the ceramicist Emma Bridgewater about her sister Nell Gifford, who started Giffordâs Circus. In a crowded room he probed Emma, still raw from her beloved sisterâs very recent death, with kindness and gentle restraint. It made me want to know more of the person behind the consummate interviewer. Most people know Matthew as a columnist and from Radio 4âs biographical programme
Great Lives â heâs presented over 500 episodes. Last year came
Fracture, Matthewâs book about how geniuses and great lives are often forged in trauma. Ed Vaizey and I talked to him about