John Ellingsworth writes for Total Theatre Magazine, Animations Online, the Circus Development Agency, Spoonfed and the Guardian. He edits an online circus magazine.

Frantic drive

Amid all of this is some of the thinking that went into the piece – about the environment, broadly, and how it is despoiled. We see a river that overfills with supermarket detritus, and fish are replaced by plastic water bottles (the smaller ones chased off by a 10-litre whopper). I’m unsure quite how this fits with the grandstanding, spectacular character of the performance.