Cirque de Soleil’s “biggest UK show” Ovo begins nationwide tour – How to get tickets | Theatre | Entertainment | EUROtoday
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Cirque de Soleil has not one however two enormous treats for UK followers this 12 months. As properly because the latest Alegría at London’s Royal Albert Hall, there may be additionally the upcoming UK tour of the favored present Ovo.
The Canadian circus maestros have not introduced the eco-based extravaganza to our shores since 2018 and the main tour will kick off, reasonably appropriately, on the Ovo Hydro Arena in Glasgow on March 24. Full particulars about dates and tickets throughout your complete run under.
Cirque de Soleil are always innovating and increasing their repertoire and this will probably be an “updated” model of the manufacturing which turned their most-watched present within the UK when it was right here final. You can learn my authentic overview of Ovo under.
OVO 2018 REVIEW: If you do not like bugs, look away now. If you want having your breath taken away by jaw-dropping shows of magnificence, energy and freakishly versatile our bodies, then that is the present for you.
What’s extra, I’ve by no means heard a lot laughter blended in with the gasps and involuntary profanities from a gobsmacked Cirque du Soleil viewers. The inevitable clown interludes do not all the time translate for UK audiences, however this present mixes silliness and elegance, thrills and (no) spills to dazzling impact.
The set-up introduces a silly fly who’s carrying an enormous egg (therefore the present title) and falls for a coquettish ladybug. A kalaedoscopic array of insect and bug life interacts with the prat-falling pair, punctuated with ever extra daring feats of spectacular virtuosity from the word-class solid.
There was a dynamic dragonfly, twisting and contorting his physique (and backbone) is ever extra eye-watering shapes. Romance and a rush of exhilation comes from above as a pair soared and spun throughout the large vaulted dome as beguiling butterflies.
Suspended over the stage on an infinite body, the massed muscle of the ever present Russian and Ukranian strongmen flung their feminine gold-plated scarabs by way of the air to ever-louder gasps from the viewers.
A daredevil spider risked stealing your complete present in a high-wire act past perception. Before a surprised and silent crowd he ended up the other way up balancing his brow on a unicycle and pedalling together with his arms.
Scroll down for the complete listing of Ovo UK Tour dates subsequent.
A feminine troop of ant tumblers demonstrated fancy footwork as they tossed big kiwi fruit (and one another) to open the present. Their male cricket counterparts closed the evening with a crescendo of explosive tumbling throughout the ground and up the big 8-metre wall, utilizing enormous trampolines to propel themselves ever greater.
It all ended with an enormous get together on stage, the fly and ladybird united and 1000’s of gob-smacked people struggling to consider what they’d simply seen.”
CIRQUE DE SOLEIL OVO UK TOUR 2024:
OVO HYDRO, GLASGOW from 21-24 MARCH
AO ARENA, MANCHESTER from 27-31 MARCH
FIRST DIRECT ARENA, LEEDS from 4-7 APRIL
M&S BANK ARENA, LIVERPOOL from 11-14 APRIL
UTILITA ARENA, BIRMINGHAM from 25-28 APRIL
Tickers are on sale now at: www.cirquedusoleil.com/ovo
https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/theatre/1878081/Cirque-de-Soleil-Ovo-tour-tickets-Liverpool-Manchester-Leeds-Glasgow-Birmingham