Sugar Beast Circus

To the point of fragmentation. With Shunt associate Geneva Foster Gluck as founder and director, Sugar Beast Circus are a UK company with an intellectual, theoretical approach to making work – their pieces driven not by technique or even the exploration of a specific discipline, but by a swarming collection of ideas and notions. In The Powder Factory, 19th century notions of hysteria and the photographic image; in Milkwood Rodeo, Hollywood and narratives of disappearance; in The Sugar Beast Circus Show, evolution and the irrationality of science. The company's mode is to pursue logic to breakdown, to crinkle the smooth face of reality, and in doing so to present something honestly, truly, deeply weird.