**Introduction** This is something a little different to what you may know my reviews to be about. When I heard that as part of the UK Tour the Chinese State Circus was coming to my home town of Taunton I was not really that bothered either way but when I was offered the opportunity of a free ticket to go and see a show I decided to go along and see what it was all about. The touring circus are part of The "European Entertainment Corporation" who also put on the Moscow and Berlin state Circuses. **The Chinese State Circus** The Chinese State Circus began touring the United Kingdom in 1992 and has become one of the world's most ...  Read the complete review

We were lucky enough to see the Chinese State Circus perform at Milton Keynes Theatre this week. The skill of the performers in this show is amazing. The show is however quite short. The first half is 45 minutes and the second half is 40 minutes. The first half of the show is based around ancient China and replicates a number of the skills that would have been performed for the Chinese emperors hundreds of years ago. This included such things as plate spinning and contortionism.The colours and detail on the costumes was outstanding. It was all narrated by "the monkey King". This was one of the disppointing parts of the show as the ...  Read the complete review