(cast pictured is not quite the current touring cast, but close enough)
Statera Circus comes from a fine tradition of Australian Acrobatics - long-running companies like the Flying Fruit Flies in Albury and the recently-folded Circus Oz have combined tumbling, juggling, and a certain irreverent sense of humour into a high standard of performance. Statera works on a smaller canvas - only three performers on this tour with a juggling-capable stage manager also appearing onstage, but have the same mix of balancing, tumbling, throwing stuff around, and gently goofing themselves in a delightful one-hour show.
This is a charmingly rough, gentle show, showing three characters over the course of roughly-a-day at an abstract supermarket - juggling , throwing themselves around the fixtures, fittings and trolley, and generally letting time pass to avoid the boredom or, even worse, the customers. Each performer forms a strong comedic persona - Aleshannee Kelso as the one in charge, Tomas Correia as the new guy just started on the job and somewhat out of his depth, and, scene stealingly, Karina Schiller as an ever-eating- agent of chaos. It's a delightful exercise in anarchy that engages the audience, as the performers show off their skill in a way that delights even more in its seeming-effortlessness. After the glitz and glamour that's accumluated to a lot of the genere of a simple acrobatic show, it's a delight to get back to the basics of humour and human bodies doing astounding things, and Statera delivers that in a fun 1 hour package.
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