The Fabric of Circa

circustalk.com: Ten years ago, Libby McDonnell walked through our studio doors as Circa’s newly-appointed costume designer. 2010 had been a challenging year, with the company facing cancelled shows as venues and audiences reeled from the repercussions of a global (financial) crisis. It was a year when our Artistic Director, in his annual report, described circus as ‘utterly necessary’ in addressing ‘the physics of hope and the poetics of suffering.’