Show Pony

Do you know what happens to acrobats when they hit middle age? Neither do still hungry, but they’re going to use every trick they have to try and figure it out.

Show Pony is the new autobiographical piece by Berlin-based circus company still hungry, in collaboration with British performance maker Bryony Kimmings.

A candid look at a life on stage and the painful moment when the stage no longer wants you, Show Pony brings past, present and an imagined future together as three women try to decide how they can go on, or if they should go on at all. Packed full of love, laughter and lunacy, the show is a joyful scream into the face of patriarchy that challenges us to question our prejudices towards age and femininity, on stage and off.

Show Pony blends text-based storytelling with circus disciplines including straps, vertical rope, contortion and object manipulation. What initially appears to be a look behind the scenes of the circus industry transforms into open-heart surgery – a brutally honest confrontation with childhood conditioning, growing older and the importance of friendship.

‘Gorgeous and brutally honest.’ Berliner Morgenpost