Out of the Ordinary Festival - Saturday

Parade – The Giant Wheel is a moving performance inspired by the beauty, power, and impact of people from different walks of life coming together, featuring a 12-foot tall Giant Wheel powered by 5 street artists and accompanied by music and a large community cast of local groups and individual performers. 

This dinner service delight combines silent comedy and graceful slapstick to great effect. We begin with the odd plate flip or sculpted napkin until, with a flick of their bow-ties, our comedy waiters burst into a boy band routine and bring pure joy to your food festival, city street or ambassador’s ball.

To a rousing soundtrack of all time classics, they evoke the genius of Morecambe and Wise and conjure adolescent admiration with a hilarious boyband homage. In the theatrical finale, rain cascades from umbrellas, with beautiful choreography performed to Singing Waiters in the Rain. Completely self contained, with a wheeled trolley ready to roll on any terrain, this act is versatile and utterly charming.

A playful, interactive outdoor performance exploring the legends of 18th-century highway robbers. Audiences become jurors, re-enact crimes, and debate verdicts. Blending history with comedy, dance, and bold design, it invites reflection on crime and punishment.

Bharatanatyam and Bollywood dance styles.

A curious box lies dormant on the stage. Music awakens what lurks inside as big eyes appear from every angle and surreal creatures emerge from within. The Box grows legs and erupts into a frenzied dance and a half-bird, half-human contortionist balances precariously on top. What other extraordinary beasts will appear? Will the fish eat the bird and what further madcap mayhem can possibly be contained within this bottomless box?

An exuberant and comedic show inspired by Hieronymus Bosch with acrobatics, dance, puppetry and the ridiculous impossible. Suitable for all ages.

Grey Area is a street performance by Charles Brockbank, blending juggling, parkour, and clowning to reimagine the overlooked ‘grey zones’ of the urban landscape. This is a playful yet thoughtful response to the spaces we often move through without noticing. Created through a neurodivergent lens, Grey Area invites audiences to reconsider their relationship with the built environment — to pause, look again, and find moments of connection in the in-between.

A clown on the run, wanted for a crime she didn’t commit! In trying to prove her innocence, she finds that the silver lining is daring to be yourself in a world trying to make you like everyone else. 

A joyous celebration of what it is to be human with slap-stick comedy, puppets and silly dancing. Suitable for all ages.

The Happy Heart Bike is a cross between a giant marble run and a kinetic sculpture. It is hand crafted and built onto the back of a bike to create a mobile piece of street theatre.

Onlookers can marvel at the intriguing cycling sculpture and follow the balls as they take their journey around the bike, then the rider dismounts for an impromptu juggling skit as an extra little treat.

Super-Objective: To explore the new world and expand the empire!

Personnel: Major ‘Eddy’ Edward Edmund (expedition leader) and Lance Corporal Henry ‘stinker’ Hilary (4th in command) are available to plot plan and prod your uncharted territory. These two ‘Victorian Gentlemen Explorers’ will explore your event and try to work out why they are so darn lost.

Camouflage: Dressed in tropical kit and pith helmets they are there to amuse and bemuse your indigenous population. Covered in cobwebs, memories and pride they pioneer and perform to the populace whilst puffing on a pipe.

The Enchanted Flower Globe is a completely unique, beautifully illuminated, interactive walkabout act.

The performance character is Floris, the joyful flower nymph who lives inside this magical and unique mobile microclimate. She is curious to meet her spectators. She draws them into her magical world, filled with butterflies and charm, magic and wonder. Giant posies bloom around her, flourishing in the heat. Watch as she tends to them and breathes life into all the little puppet creatures that live amongst them, with a little help from her spectators.

Based on the premise that life is a journey, our two travellers are just passing through. They have a map, but it doesn’t make much sense. They are trying to get somewhere important, but they are not entirely sure where that is. Along the way however they have seen some incredible things and have tall tales to tell and tricks to show…

Carrying rucksacks that swing open into small puppet sets, many other surprises and delights, our wanderers will amuse all with the general buffoonery of being lost, overloaded and without a clue, and then amaze and enthral with their innovative and unexpected puppetry, physical theatre and storytelling.