The Loons Circus Theatre Company
Adapted by Joe Bennett from an original work by Paul Sellar
Director Mike Friend
Choreographer Neil Fisher

WORLD PREMIERE

“Have you ever considered the remote possibility that life is a Circus?”

Turner has a dream. Gazing out from the wasteland of Happy Home Road he sees the ethereal Lady in Red. He resolves to build a shed.
Circus, dance, music and drama collide. The result is a Pinteresque-world that combines the exuberance of madness with the exhaustion of reality. Visually breathtaking, it melds desolate romanticism with zany comic zest. Happy Home Road is circus for a new century.

The Loons Circus Theatre Company production of The Butler premiered as a CircoArts student production at Christ’s College, followed by two remounted seasons at The Loons in Lyttelton and a sell-out season at the Nelson Arts Festival. In October 2009 The Butler will play a return season at the Nelson Arts Festival, then plays the Tauranga Arts Festival, The Edge in Auckland, followed by The Pleasance in London, opening on November 13.