UK's First "Drive in Circus" Opens July 16 ... Screens, Stage, Rigging Go Up in Cornwall ... Gentlemen, Park Your Cars Six Feet Apart!

Hey, America, take a look at this ... Over there across the Big Pond, the circus is once again coming to town -- in a radically reshaped format fostered to preserve public safety during these days of Corona.  Paulo Circus, with roots back to 1816, producing. Cheers to their do-or-die genius.   First show uncorks in Newquay, Cornwall on July 16. And does that date ring a bell, fans of old? 'Twas on a July 16, in the year 1956, that Ringling Bros.and Barnum & Bailey played it's last show under canvas.

Layout a far cry from the old six pole big top, this one designed in default to put the health of patrons first and foremost, which means that cars will observe social distancing.
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The new mix combines stage, screen, rigging, set to a soundtrack of '80s pop.  It feels odd and strained and tentative, but who knows what kind of a new circus it may create that will, in part, endure into the future.  A second circus revolution in the land of Philip Astley?

This from their Facebook page:

We are back for 2020 !! But we ain’t staying here!! We are heading back to the ”Bodacious” 80’s!! This year we are going to be throwing you back to the tubular 80’s !! The music, the hair styles and all the awesomeness that came with it !!

Ah, ingenuity. Ah, adaptation!  You can read more about it on the Circus Mania blog, with a link to the right.