Gig Review: La Ronde

The Show: La Ronde

The Space: The Spiegeltent at the Darwin Festival

Runtime: 90 minutes with a 20 minute interval

Outlay: Tickets from $59

Until 23 August

I was told to go to this show. Some colleagues saw this last week in preview and loved it and seeing that I’m only around for the Darwin Festival for two days, this was my only chance to see something.

Wow!

La Ronde is everything you want In a cabaret/circus act. Incredible acrobatics, a saucy sense of humour, bright lights, fantastic music and an international talent pool that will leave you breathless. Abs for days, not a scrap of fat on any of them, along with talents you never knew the human body could achieve. 

Part of the joy of this is the location of the show, which is held in the Speigeltent on the lawns of Darwin's parliament. The movable circus tent, composing of glass walls and a tent like roof, with a wooden floor is mercifully air-conditioned. On entering the tent, you come face to face with a huge mirror ball. And once the show begins, you're tantilised, delighted and engrossed in these wonderful performers with their hyper-flexible and incredibly strong bodies. 

The show is raunchy, sexy and funny. The two acts, with a 20-minute interval (which when you see what they get up to in here, they've earned a rest) gives you a time to get a drink before talking in the 
next act. 

It's sheer entertainment. I'm thrilled I got a ticket. 

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