Godz
We are summoned to an audience with the Gods. At their table, complete with gold tablecloth and ample wine for a bacchanal of epic proportions are seated Cupid (the god of love), Hercules (the god of strength) and Dionysus (the god of wine), who beckon to us to join them in their revels!
There is so much to commend in this show - incredible circus skills, a well written funny script, clever lighting and sound plot, and above all, the talent of the four performers.
A wide range of circus skills are featured: the diabolo (frantically executed, culminating in juggling three diabolos), balancing (on anything in sight), head spinning (on a table and a trapeze), ladder work, trapeze, aerial straps, whips and more!
The evening revs up nicely as the Gods bare their chests (and more) while trying to share gold platters to cover their Godly essentials.
Highlights of the evening are – using a whip to extinguish candles (or did he?); balancing on five chairs balanced on a table; a comedy routine on the aerial strap; performing handstands and balancing on an unsupported ladder and dazzling trapeze work.
These all pale into insignificance in the last section of the evening when we witness Hercules’ banishment to Hell, complete with the Lord of the Underworld and two crazed nuns!
Modesty, and not wanting to give away too much, forbids me from revealing this part of the show, but suffice to say the antics on the aerial straps by the nuns alone are worth the price of admission!
As if this was not enough, the previous antics are eclipsed by one of the best aerial straps routines I have ever seen, performed by God himself!
Needless to say, the audience in The Vault lapped up every minute of the night and at the conclusion of the performance rose to their feet and would not let the host Call Harris (Hercules) speak for quite a while.
Godz is clever, acrobatic, funny, irreverent, camp, sexy and divine entertainment. The perfect way to spend a night out!
Barry Hill
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