We are " The Crafty Rascals " a collective of artists and performers with varied backgrounds in street arts, sculpture, circus performance, busking and loads besides. We have been working together for just over two years and individually have talents and skill sets ranging from fire breathing right through to tap-dance and tightrope (but never at the same time!)
We take all sorts of bookings from private parties to promotional events and regularly perform walk about theatre for the likes of Larma Tree Festival, Shambala, Boomtown Fair, Bestival to name but a few . We add a surreal twist to any club night and also perform at street arts festivals and fayres both at home and abroad. We returned in December 2015 from China having built an art installation and performed for Clockenflap Festival in Hong Kong and we can't wait to take our new act back out in 2016!
We have loads being confirmed for 2017 so please be sure to check out where you can see us and the dates we are both available and performing on our bookings page. We are excited to announce today that we'll be collaborating with the amazing "Gypsy Disco" for ten days of performance in one of the world famous travelling Spiegel Tents
Our acts include " The Levitating Hippy " or " The English Fakir " Then there's our " Lucid Light " boxes that bend the very fabric of space, an itchy old fashioned "Flea Circus" whose ringmaster in other guises is our knife thrower in training. We have our spinning " Hypno-Wheel " trans dimensional space warper that brings on strong hallucinatory visions for all who are brave enough to stand and stare for one whole minute and let's not forget our fire breathers, spinners, hoopers and high wire women in silks.
We have recently finished touring around with our " The Original Selfie Show " Which is a small hidden camera obscura used to quickly capture and cut someone's silhouette as they sit in a Victorian photo booth packed full of unexpected surprises .
Perhaps most excitingly for us is the fact that we are working on a wheel of death, an old school impalement act where the ever brave and beautiful Olga is attached to a rotating wheel as knifes fly all around her popping the balloons that are pressed against her flesh...ending with a crossbow bolt between the legs.
We must be mad...but then again all the best people are! So if concise confusion and smiling from ear to ear is your thing then we are the one's for you and we truly love and live for what we do.
Please take the time to view our slideshow and check out all the acts we have on offer.
For all and any other enquiries please don't hesitate to get in touch via our contact page even if it's just to say hello.