What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…
Join us for a surreal 24 hours in St Nowhere’s Hospital. In this hospital, the doctors are clowns and injured athletes dance on their hands. Microscopic viruses bounce along the corridors which slide in and out along with your consciousness. This is what it means to be SICK, walking the tightrope of hope and despair.
Inspired by Director Gavin Marshall’s personal experience of a prolonged, career-altering stay in hospital, SICK uses slapstick, circus and clowning to explore what happens when your body lets you down. For the emerging circus performers of NICA’s Bachelor of Circus Arts, this show will mark their final NICA performance before they graduate and embark on a professional career where dealing with - and protecting themselves from - injury is constant.
With relatable themes of hope, healing, bravery and betrayal, SICK will have you in stitches.
27 November - 7 December 2019 at NICA National Circus Centre, 39-59 Green Street, Prahran, VIC.
NICA is Australia’s Centre of Excellence for training in contemporary circus arts. It is one of eight national arts training institutes and offers Australia’s only Bachelor of Circus Arts. Graduates of NICA have gone on to pursue exciting careers both locally and internationally and have contributed to the development of Melbourne’s vibrant circus arts industry.
Video Credit: Masterworks Media Productions