Variété

Variété is a remarkable and unusual music theatre piece originally written, directed and performed by Lindsay Kemp with his internationally renowned company. YMT recreates this iconic piece with new orchestration and an expanded cast.

1936 Hamburg, Germany. A wandering naïve joins a seedy sideshow circus, the eccentric cast of which are rarely what they seem. As his success playing ‘The Bird Man’ grows, so does his psychotic obsession with the deaf trapeze dancer Maria. On one fateful moon drenched night he abandons his timidity to finally embrace his violence and wreak revenge…but was it real? Did it happen?