[ATTENDED: October 25, 2025] The Vampire Circus
I love a good circus. This circus–vampire themed–seemed like a really fun thing to do around Halloween. It was also near my daughter’s birthday so I thought it would be a fun birthday present. Amusingly, she made other plans that night so we went with my son and one of his friends instead.
The short version is that this show was much like any other cirque–aerial work, strong men and balancing. But the overall story was vampriric. It wasn’t “adult” or scary, but it did play up the tropes of vampire lore (somewhat). For instance, before one of the acts, the woman was wheeled out in a coffin, but otherwise it was an aerial act with ribbons.
This is not to downplay any of the spectacle, just to give it proper setting.
Although according to the website
Set in Bohemia during the 19 century, Count Dracula contemplates a plan for world domination, when he decides to open a traveling circus with his gypsy bodyguards. The Vampire Circus is a perfect cover-up to travel unnoticed and begin his world reign of terror and turn all humans into an army of vampires for global dominance.
I didn’t get any of that but I did get
Cirque acrobatics, comical audience interactions, contortionists, jugglers, acrobats, and raving cheers for a “Mad Graveyard Clown.”
For indeed, the host, the Mad Graveyard Clown was awesome. His audience work was fantastic. Our favorite bit was when someone came in late while he was on stage. He immediately found the man and had the man hold up his (the clown’s) coat. The man stood of to the side in the audience and every time he lowered his hand a bit, the clown spotted him and made him raise his hand. He also had a really fun sequence where he brought two kids from the audience and had them use water pistols to put out a candle. For the climax of that bit, he moved the candle right in front of the people in the front row and gave him a huge super soaker. (more…)
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