Experience the joyous dream-like world, unlike anything you have seen before. A world in which a cobweb envelops the audience and one tiny piece of paper begins a heart-stopping blizzard of snow. Read more …
Combining hilarity and poignancy with stunning, breathtaking spectacle, this classic show is full of joy for all the family from 8 to 88!.
A theatre of hopes and dreams, suffused with solitude and longing, premonitions and dillusions,' Slava's Snow Show is one of the most juvenile funny, eerily dark and astoundingly beautiful performances on stage today.
A flat out masterpiece.
Slava Polunin, the creator and star of the show, describes a good clown as: “…a person who, on entering the room, brings joy and love for life”. These are good clowns: this show is simply magical.
Younger children might struggle to stay engaged during the early sequences of the show, and certainly you need to expect silliness, quirky humour, random oddness and bizarre happenings throughout the production. But even the most po-faced audience member should find something uplifting and (strangely) redemptive in the gloriously OTT finale.
Perhaps the long-term success of the show has led to a certain lack of freshness, or perhaps that very success leads to unrealistic expectations. At any rate, there is much to admire here, even if it is not as impressive or memorable as it might be.
Interview: Slava's Snow Show creator Slava Polunin
Slava's Snowshow, Edinburgh
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Wednesday December 3, 2014, until Saturday December 6, 2014. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/festival
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