The world's greatest, grotesque, most daring & bizarre Circus act!

Circus of Horrors Following on on the huge success of The Asylum, The Circus of Horrors has had a major revamp & is back rocking & shocking with a brand new show ‘The Day of the Dead’. (Día de los Muerto - A Mexican X’ Travaganza). Set in Mexico during the early 1900’s , the cast of chasosmongers transport the body of their doyen Dr Haze to a remote area of Mexico. Unbeynowed to them they settled In a former burial ground of Aztec Warriors. There they join the local inhabitants ‘Day of the Dead’ rituals to try & revive their esteemed leader. All of course with disastrous consequences. Amid a backdrop of a Aztec Temple, Witch-doctors, Voodoo Acrobats, Pickled People, Bendy Bodies, Demon Dwarfs, and flying Vampires erupting, chained, from a tank of blood to perform their amazing Blood Curdling stunts. Once revived, The Undead Ringmaster Doktor Haze will guide you through a hell of a tale with the help of the live devil driven rock n’ roll of the The Interceptors From Hell and a huge uncontrollable cast of Toltecion Beauties, Curvaceous Creatures, Aztec Warriors, Posada’s Skeletons, Voluptuous Vampires and some of the worlds greatest, grotesque, most daring & bizarre Circus acts. The Day of the Dead spectacular takes The Circus of Horrors into a staggering 15 years since it first trampled the bloody boards, it has since toured relentlessly around the World achieving cult status since, generally dragging Circus screaming and shouting into the 21st century and beyond. NOW the whole evil ensemble is back with a BRAND NEW SHOW. Day of the Dead ‘Pierrot Bidon, director of the legendary chainsaw slinging Archaos returns to co. direct this strange new musical masterpiece in his own inimitable style with shocks,surprises & black humour. The crowd favourites as still there but are now entrapped in a Undead Mexican X Travaganza, all intermingled & entwined with oddities, fakirs and death defying Circus acts Music & Story by: Dr Haze Artistic Director: Pierrot Bidon (Archaos) Special Effects: Savage Optic The Greatest Circus of Horrors show to Date 'The King Pole; Totally Unbelievable 'Scott Mills, Radio 1' Barnum Would be proud 'Time Out' ‘All Killer, All Thriller, No Filler’ Gorezome Magazine Circus of Horrors Grand Opera House York Wednesday 20 January at 7.30pm Tickets are priced at £13.00, £17.00,£19.00,£23.00 and are available from box office on 0844 847 2322 or online at www.grandoperahouseyork.org.uk Obituary & Additional Quotes Created in 1995 after a chance meeting (ironically at a funeral) between Dr Haze & Circus impresario Gerry Cottle the Circus of Horrors made it’s debut at the Glastonbury Festival of that year. Since then The Circus of Horrors has toured the world in major venues & festivals, including, a Arena tour of Argentina, Uruguay, Chile & Holland. Fuji Rock Festival. Japan. Tolwood Festival in Munich, Galway Festival, Ireland, Glastonbury Festival (twice), Plus most of Britain's art & music festivals including an unprecedented fourth visit to the Edinburgh Festival. It has recently completed a 78 venue Theatre tour, the length & depth of the UK and has appeared on many TV show’s including, Ant & Dec’s saturday night takeaway, Richard & Judy, Davina McCalls Don’t try this at Home (8 times), A Royal Command Performance, A cameo role on London's Burning, So Graham Norton, Jerry Springer, This Morning, & Bizarre ER and many news related programs. Plus 2 of its former performers were Big Brother inmates. It has released 3 soundtrack albums ‘Destiny & Desire and Welcome to the Freak-show and the DVD Undead & Alive, the third & definitive album 'The Evil Anthology of Dr Haze & The Circus of Horrors' was released in October 2008. More Information For more information, biogs, images or to arrange an interview please contact Celestine Dubruel, Press Officer, by emailing celestine.dubruel@livenation.co.uk or calling 01904 678 711.