Magical Evening

In Magical Evening by Stella Polaris, the audience was in a worn down and half abandoned vaudeville theatre sometime in the early nineteen hundreds. Both the animals and the audience were gone. All that was left is a handful of actors. They took on all the roles. The audience followed them onstage and offstage in a variety of circus nostalgia where anything could and would happen. There were pictures, colourful costumes, a hint of circus and a dream of love. Juggling, slackrope and magic. Flying acrobatics and flamenco. Even though the animals were gone, they were still present in the actors’ fantasies - and through them also for the audience watching.

Here was the gypsy poetry, here were the wayfaring artists. Who where they? Where did they come from? Here were creatures from the whole world, fetched in boxes from jungle and nature.