Cirque Alfonse is now represented in the USA by Laurelle Favreau of GAMI SIMONDS who is presently planning the next US tours of ANIMAL in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons
John Lambert & Assoc continues to represent the company in Latin America as well as the Asia Pacific Region
Premiered at Montréal Complètement Cirque in July 2021, the production has already toured across Quebec and France and premiered in the UK at Underbelly during the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe. The premiere of ANIMAL in the USA took place in April / May 2023 with performances in Appleton WI, Madison WI, Milwaukee WI, Lincoln NE, Manchester NH, Fairfield CT, Portland OR and Lake Placid NY.
ANIMAL offers up a series of slightly surreal farm fables as well as some of their familiar irreverence, impressive virtuosity and the irresistible comic touch favoured by this troupe of country hipsters.
On this occasion, the creators of TIMBER, BARBU and TABARNAK take the audience on a journey to discover a somewhat re-invented agricultural world. In ANIMAL, the farm is turned upside down and the barn turned inside out! A gentleman-farmer has surrounded himself with some familiar but slightly bizarre creatures: the chickens have teeth, the ducks are slightly menacing and the cows are kicking up a fuss. In this “farm fantasy”, the imagination conjures up stories from childhood. Rural life turns out to be energetic as well as poetic. Cliches are joyfully turned on their head as the production appeals to young and old with both its atmospheric lyricism and its acrobatic prowess.
Yet again, Cirque Alfonse has favoured its multidisciplinary approach where circus, song, dance and theatre all come together, the driving the production being the original live music … an irresistible mix of trad and soul that the troupe calls ‘agricultural funk!