Snow Clowning

Slava’s Snowshow, the brainchild of one of the world’s greatest and most loved clowns, returns to the King’s Theatre in Glasgow for a one-week engagement. Mixing classic clowning styles with music, physical performance and audience interaction, the production has won universal acclaim for its innovative and imaginative staging.

Russian Slava Polunin showed promise from an early age. He took a short detour in life, choosing to study engineering at university to appease his mother. However, he dropped out after a few years and returned to his great love: performance. Polunin has since had a lucrative career that has seen him perform throughout the world. While he has created numerous productions, Snowshow firmly makes its mark through its longevity.

Rather than following a story arch, Snowshow is more about tone, environment and emotional responses. Broken into two acts, the production is a hodgepodge of scenes that have little in common other than a reliance on music, spectacle and imagination, ending with a spectacular snowstorm, encompassing the entire theatre.

The production has won numerous awards throughout the world, and it has been a massive box office hit. And although it is in its second decade, there seems to be no immediate end in sight. The production is still successfully touring and continues to acquire great demand throughout the world, including its upcoming Broadway run during the Christmas season.

If you haven’t had the pleasure yet, make sure you book tickets for what many have found to be a moving, magical experience. [Michael Cox]