Squaring the Wheel @ Koorliny Arts Centre

Squaring the Wheel @ Koorliny Arts Centre

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Posted 2014-07-02 by writenote1follow

Tue 08 Jul 2014

Most parents dread the words "I'm bored", which too often are uttered within hours (days, if you're lucky) of school holidays starting. Why not pre-empt such utterances by booking the kids in to see Squaring the Wheel at Koorliny Arts Centre on July 8, and watch how they become inspired by a wacky inventor who makes quirky contraptions out of junk?


Presented by Country Arts WA and Act-Belong-Commit, Squaring the Wheel fuses circus, clowns, strange mechanisms and contraptions, puppetry, magic and music into a theatrical school holiday extravaganza. When it was performed at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2011, reviewer Merlynda von Derksen described it as a "comical visual feast which simply has to be seen to be believed". Following the Sydney Festival in 2014, Sydney Morning Herald described the show as "pure junkyard genius".

Created and performed by Jens Altheimer, Squaring the Wheel is a family show inhabited by an eccentric misfit who transforms a pile of junk into quirky contraptions, highlighting the human way of complicating simple things. A flying broom, two ugly screaming babies, 17 balls, 34 metres of bent steel, 483 welded points and 15 marching eggs are just the tip of the iceberg of unexpected, transformed wacky materials and objects.


With imagination the only barrier, everyday objects are reused in odd yet somehow poetic ways or transformed into unexpected and hilarious contraptions. Household items turn into improbable and obstinate juggling props, and bits of metal are reassembled into gigantic toys.

It's buckets of fun, but educational, too, with Sydney Morning Herald reporter Elissa Blake concluding, "What begins as children's entertainment ends with a lesson on gravity, friction, kinetic and stored energy, levers, counterweights and pulleys." After the show, there's a 20-minute interactive workshop that explores the science behind the wacky contraptions so kids can get inspired to build their own little universe of pulleys, catapults and chain-reaction machines back home.


Help your kids think beyond the box and out of the box these school holidays by adding Squaring the Wheel to your holiday to-do list. The winner of the Adelaide Fringe Award for Best Presentation for Children in 2013, it promises to be unpredictable, funny, touching and very clever.

The show runs for 60 minutes, plus an extra 20 minutes for the workshop, and is suitable for ages 5 . It is on at 1pm and 6pm.

Tickets cost $22 adults, $20 concession and $18 children.

To book, call Koorliny Arts Centre on 9467 7118 or click here .

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