JUNK Tickets

Dynamic Australian youth circus Flying Fruit Fly Circus presents their latest show for all ages, a spellbinding playground adventure set in a junkyard inhabited by children from the 1940s.

An ordinary boy, covered head-to-toe in safety gear, prepares to ride his bicycle. Then, out of nowhere, he is sucked back in time to the 1940s. There, in an abandoned junkyard, he meets a gang of kids wild at heart, whose boundless enthusiasm urges him to play as children once did: without inhibition and free from adult supervision.

Propelled by a cast of talented young performers, this vibrant take on childhood tumbles headfirst into a world of play and imagination through circus skills and acrobatics, beautiful shadow puppetry and a moving sense of nostalgia for a time when young people were encouraged to take risks and weren’t wrapped in cotton wool.

Bring your children and embolden them to invent their own fun – and maybe inspire them to unleash their inner circus acrobat, too.

55mins no interval

CREATIVE PLAY

Come early and experience pre-show performances by New Zealand circus theatre company The Dust Palace, or book in for exciting circus workshops.

Kids' Circus Skills Workshops (for ages 4–12). Small group workshops for kids to learn tumbling, juggling, balancing and other fabulous circus skills. Numbers are strictly limited. Tickets $10.

Top-of-the-Heap: Experience giggles, contortion, adventures, tea parties and awesome pirate battles in The Dust Palace’s free pre-show circus performance installation. Top-of-the-Heap starts in the foyer 45 minutes

before every JUNK show. FREE

***** “Exhilarating, inspirational and fun.” — ArtsHub

“JUNK is absolutely wondrous. Grab a child, go.” — Sydney Morning Herald

Family

New Zealand Premiere