Design and graphic art by Lin Tobias. Cover illustration by Reg Mombassa.

Printer unknown

Circus program made and used between 1983-1984. Performances in the program between 17 Feburary -14 March 1993

Kerry Dwyer kept the program as a record of her time working with the circus. She had been a founding member of APG at the Pram Factory and La Mama. With an interest in physical theatre, she became a circus performer, toured with Circus Oz and has directed the Wimmins Circus. Both her children travelled with Circus Oz with their mother. 'It seemed like an romantic thing to do to go off in the circus with the children' (Kerry Dwyer, interview with Peter Cox, April 1998). They joined Circus Oz in 1981 when it went to Port Fairy, then on a Murray River tour, then to Canberra (around Christmas 1981).

She and the children lived on the lot with the circus at Sydney's Wentworth Park, June to August 1982. The kids went to school at Darlinghurst but liked to involve themselves with the circus. They operated the fairy floss van, making and selling the stuff. Nellie also made biscuits on the bus and sold them at interval as 'Nellie's bus-made bikkies'. At the ages 6 and 9, Nellie and Jake Blundell called a circus meeting and announced that they wanted to appear in the show performing a clown routine. Along with another boy named Toby, the kids developed their own act, The Honeybee and the Hive, making their costumes and devising a routine themselves. (They did not wear the t-shirts in their act). Kerry Dwyer has appeared in the films On Guard and Molly, and has directed films including Bruce Cuts off his Hands.

Kerry Dwyer obtained the program while working with the circus.

Program, Circus Oz, paper/card, designed by Lin Tobias/ illustration by Reg Mombassa, Australia, 1993.

Program for performance of Circus Oz under the Big Top at Moore Park, 17 February - 14 March 1993.
Booklet, double sided three colour printed text and black and white illustrations, stapled, 12 pages, featuring foldout central page. Front cover features a design by Reg Mombassa. This consists of a stylised landscape in pink and red featuring with stylised illustrations of performers including a figure playing guitar, a figure riding a guitar, a figure playing a trumpet, a figure riding a unicycle, a circus tent, a pink sky with a yellow sun and various black, pink, red and white figures. These are arranged around a central text 'Circus Oz' in yellow and white with black border. The back cover features a colour image of an aerialist. The program contains information about the Circus Oz company, its history and the performers. Also contains colour and black and white photographs by Ponch Hawkes.

Made: Mombassa, Reg; ; 1993

: Tobias, Lin;

: Unknown;


Used: Dwyer, Kerry;

Used: Circus Oz;

Owned: Dwyer, Kerry;

Owned: Circus Oz;

None

98/108/4

1993

450 mm