As we walked into the huge Mao tent in Gluttony for Circus The Show, Grandma, Grandpa and our four-year-old grandson, we noticed a lonely clown on stage cleaning the stage. How hard is it to sweep a stage? Well, if you are Clown, pretty hard apparently. He kept having all sort of issues with his broom as the audience rolled in.

This is a family show and by that it is for all the family, not just for the children. Shareen gave us a display of working with hoops and Ricardo the Desperado threw a lot of balls in the air and kept catching them.
A nice surprise was having an Adelaide couple of stage, Helen and Owen, doing their acrobatic routine to Adelaideans. There is magic (and magic in the air) and Shareen closes the show on a hoop that is raised in the air.

Or is it the end? Clown comes out with a giant balloon and persuades the Ringmaster to let him do his routine which has both adults and children rolling about with laughter. A fine finale.

The Ringmaster asked the children what they wanted to see in the circus at the beginning, and despite children asking for lions, there were lions and tigers in this show. “We are not allowed to do that anymore” he laughed.

Sure, as adults we have seen these types of performances before, but there is something about a circus performance that is wonder and amazement and a lot of that is watching children’s faces and reactions of seeing a circus for the first time.

As an adult I decided to give the show four stars but the grandson said I should give it one hundred stars. I’ll meet him in the middle.