After a thousand dates, The Black Blues Brothers are back!
Gluttony, The Virago, Rymill Park, Adelaide
21st February – 23rd March 2025, 6:45 PM / 4:30 PM
The Adelaide Fringe Festival’s best circus show 2020 (The Advertiser) is coming back to Adelaide… on a mission to entertain! This acrobatic celebration returns to the Fringe with its acrobatic prowess, flips, tricks, fiery limbo, human pyramids and hilarious gags, all to the soulful tempo of The Blues Brothers’ music.
The Black Blues Brothers is an acrobatic tribute to the John Landis’ cult movie. It has established itself as a must-see international show with a highly acclaimed world tour of more than 1,000 dates and 650,000 spectators, from Australia to the United Arab Emirates, from all Europe to Bahrein. The troupe have even performed on the Royal Variety Performance (introduced by King Charles III), presented their show to Pope Francis and had a special appearance at the Moulin Rouge, the great temple of live entertainment.
These five acrobats performed four times at the Edinburgh Fringe with great success, everyday-standing ovations, full houses and 5 stars-reviews were given. They were chosen as “best physical theatre show” by Theatre Weekly. After the Adelaide Fringe Festival, they will do a tour all around Australia and continue amazing the audience.
Artistic Director & Producer, Alexander Sunny, says, “If The Blues Brothers were a band trying to put themselves back together again, the Black Blues Brothers are an acrobatic group who reform on stage every night”.
In an elegant Cotton Club-style lounge bar, a cleaner is chasing his dream of becoming one of the Blues Brothers, when two characters, dressed in the iconic suits of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, offer him a chance to make his dreams come true, helped by them and his two colleagues. Following the whims of an extravagant vintage radio, playing rhythm’n’blues music (including Gimme Some Lovin’, Sweet Home Chicago and Soul Man), the barman and the whole staff transform into performers doing balancing acts, waving flags, jumping and acrobatics with fire. The stage brims with flawless bodies flying and performing tricky stunts with a smile always on their faces, using everything around them: every object (chairs, table, hangers, vases and even mirrors) becomes a tool for breath-taking acrobatics and audience involvement.
This exciting acrobatic ensemble trained in Sarakasi, a trust that teaches acrobatics and dance to the youth in Nairobi and surrounding areas. There they met Alexander Sunny, Circus Historian and Professor of History of the Circus and Street Performances, with whom they created this original and mind-blowing show.
