CAPTAIN QUIRK
Simon Walsh is a world class juggler, musician, acclaimed circus teacher, gifted artist and designer. Based in Western Australia, Simon has performed all around the country, as well as in New Zealand, both solo and with a number of circuses - including Suitcase Circus, Circus Monoxide and Toybox Circus. In his role as a circus teacher he has taught at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, and has worked with a host of primary and high schools.

The “Captain Quirk Show” is an action-packed juggling show, set to a specifically composed funky/quirky soundtrack. The zany Captain will amaze with his highly technical routine, involving seven balls, five clubs, hat manipulations, and a unique finale involving a bowling ball, a blade, a frying pan helmet and an egg!

ELECTRIC DOLLHOUSE
Since it’s beginnings in 2000 at The Olympic Arts Festival, Electric Dollhouse has entertained audiences in Australia and around the world with an original style of animated ‘Circus Artistry’.  At this years Carnival, the girls will perform a smorgasbord of lavish Aerial spectacles and Stilt Characters with lovely long legs, to flutter and flirt and interactive walkabouts that incite mischief!

'A Suspended Love Story' is an “aerial pantomime” starring Felix, the musical clown, Scarlet, his beloved flying rag doll and Max, the toy soldier.   This spectacular show follows Felix on a journey of aerial imagery as he declares his undying love for Scarlet. In a series circus skill, slapstick acrobatics, Spanish web rope, comedy bungee, and an aerial tango in Scarlet's giant love heart, it is a serenade of clumsy stunts before he finally wins her heart!  'A Suspended Love Story' has already been loved and adored by both young and old audiences, and is guaranteed to impress and leave you giggling. A special collaboration between some of Australia's most talented and eccentric circus performers, this unique performance features Zoë Ellis (Electric Dollhouse), Kate Reid (Candy Stripe Circus), and Max Meyer - circus inventor extraordinaire.
Don't miss the fabulous suspended antics and other curious acts of Electric Dollhouse! who add colour and fun wherever they strut.…….Stylish beyond belief!!!!!!

FLYING HEART PRODUCTIONS
Mister Hardy (a.k.a. Hardey McMurrick) is a unique and highly animated clown, who might best be described as Charlie Chaplin crossed with a ferret in a sock. In his show ‘Mister Hardy’s Suitcase’ he takes his audience on a journey through his world of poetic absurdity. Constantly on the look out for moments of real life strangeness, this performance is a continuous roll of improvisations punctuated with feats of physical skill. Mr. Hardy has invented his own language with quirky vocal sound effects. He’s the world’s first carpet juggler, and also manipulates clubs, balls, coats, hats and tape measures. True to his clown bones he stumbles his way through the show stopping only briefly for a romantic interlude that climaxes with a five-object juggle on a stack of precarious suitcases.

Also keep an eye out for The Broom Guy, a cleaner character who’s big on bins, brooms, brushes and boiler suits. Watch him wrestle with wheelie bins, perch precariously on ladders, and produce clever tricks from unlikely objects. Tidying to the edge of excess, you might catch him sweeping grass and dusting pedestrians. You may go home somewhat cleaner than they came!

“A new breed of entertainer fires the imagination.” - St Kilda Times, Melbourne