Powerhouse songstress and fire-breathing queen Clara Fable will perform LIMBO – THE RETURN to her home audience at the show’s Queensland premiere on 29 August, as part of the 2024 Brisbane Festival.
The global smash-hit show will be the first to tread the boards of the all-new 400-seat theatre and bar The West End Electric, furthering Brisbane’s status as a cultural capital on the world stage. Learning the most deadly fire performance act in just 24 hours, Clara has performed on LIMBO stages across Europe, New Zealand, Japan and the United States.
“I grew up in Brisbane since I was five years old, and all my family are in South East Queensland. I have such great memories from when I was 18 or 19, working as the face of some of Brisbane’s most famous nightclubs at the time, like the Family. I always loved the West End, it’s where you go for great food and drinks and a more sophisticated night out. So I couldn’t be more excited to be performing at our all new venue, The West End Electric. I hear the cocktails are going to be amazing,” says Clara.
Clara will breathe fire, dance and sing alongside a global cast of world-leading circus and performance artists including LIMBO’s extraordinary NYC maestro Sxip Shirey. Sxip leads a motley band of multi-instrumentalists performing his signature Jank sound, inspired by New Orleans big brass bands, hip-hop, electronic and Balkan music.
“I have composed for circus, for dance, for theater, and for main stage opera and orchestras. I have performed at TED, and I have written songs for people like Rhiannon Giddens and Puddles Pity Party. But what (director) Scott Maidment has invited me to do with LIMBO has its own brand of magnificence. That’s why I am still touring with the show, over 10 years after I began working on it. And now that we have created LIMBO – THE RETURN, it’s more wildly exciting than ever,” says Sxip.
The show reimagines the original LIMBO which toured to no less than 17 countries, wowing audiences from Brussels to Bogota with its stunning fire-breathing and gravity-defying stunts. LIMBO is a show so hot that Madonna saw it twice, then asked the director to work on her world tour.
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