“Gifford's Circus”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Established in 2000, Giffords Circus is a small circus company, founded and run by Nell and Toti Gifford,^[2] that tours market towns of the south west. When not on the road the founders concentrate on landscape architecture. Nell is the sister of the designer Emma Bridgewater.

Tours

2004 – "Pearl"

2006 – "Joplin": with a 1960s theme

2008 – "Caravan": set in a horse fair around 1900

2010 – "Yasmine": inspired by the life of equestrienne Yasmine Smart, who played herself in the production

2011 – "War and Peace": themed around Napoleon's disastrous intrusion into Russia, seen though the eyes of a Russian aristocratic family

2012 – "The Saturday Book"

2013 – "Lucky 13": based on the culture clash resulting from a high art opera- and ballet-themed circus show that is gatecrashed by a rowdy Transylvanian travelling circus^[3]^[4]

2014 – "The Thunders": with the Greek Gods as its theme

2015 – "Moon Songs": blending cultural images of the moon with the story of two young Ethiopian jugglers dreaming of fame

2016 – "The Painted Wagon": centred on a group of 19th-century American homesteaders^[5]^[6]^[7]

2017 – "Any Port in a Storm": with maritime themes, and telling the story of the circus visiting the 17th-century Spanish court^[8]

2018 - "My Beautiful Circus": Celebrating 250 years of the invention of the circus as an art form

2019 - "Xanadu": With a 1960s, hippy, 'Summer of Love' theme

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.giffordscircus.com/|title=Home|website=Giffords Circus|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-05-15}}
2. ^{{cite news |last=Hughes |first=Tim |url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16291171.Roll_up_roll_up__The_circus_is_in_town____and_it_has_never_looked_better/ |title=Giffords Circus comes to Oxford with all new show |work=Oxford Mail |date=2018-06-14 |accessdate=2018-06-15 }}
3. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.giffordscircus.com/the_show.php |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2013-08-26 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130905045328/http://www.giffordscircus.com/the_show.php |archivedate=2013-09-05 |df= }}
4. ^Giffords Program 2013
5. ^{{cite news|last1=Pilston|first1=Tom|title=The Painted Wagon Wild West Show – in pictures|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/26/giffords-circus-the-painted-wagon-wild-west-show-in-pictures|work=The Guardian|date=26 June 2016}}
6. ^{{cite news |last=MacAlister |first=Katherine |url=http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/theatre/14560947.Giffords_is_back__But_is_The_Painted_Wagon_it__39_s_best_show_yet__Katherine_MacAlister_finds_out_/ |title=Giffords is back. But is The Painted Wagon it's [sic] best show yet? |work=The Oxford Times |date=2016-06-16 |accessdate=2016-06-27 }}
7. ^{{Cite news|url=http://lewisloves.com/giffords-circus/|title=A Review of the Wondeful Giffords Circus, Gloucestershire|date=2016-10-29|work=Lewis Loves|access-date=2017-06-05|language=en-GB}}
8. ^{{cite news |last=Sutherland |first=Gill |url=https://www.stratford-herald.com/71904-review-giffords-circus-2017.html |title=Review: Giffords Circus 2017 |work=Stratford-upon-Avon Herald |date=2017-06-12 |accessdate=2017-06-27 }}

External links

BBC review, 2004

{{cite news |url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2642314/Nell-Gifford-blue-stocking-ran-join-circus-The-uplifting-story-mothers-illness-Oxford-graduate-started-old-fashioned-circus-thats-British-favourite.html |first=Nell |last=Gifford |title=The bluestocking who ran off to join the circus: the uplifting story of how, to get over her mother's illness, an Oxford graduate started a very old-fashioned circus that's become a British favourite |work=MailOnline |date=29 May 2014 |accessdate=17 June 2018 }}

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