You really are treading on thin ice when you’re promising an audience a dinosaur circus but thankfully Herbie Treehead’s troupe delivers. Okay, the dinosaurs are obviously actors in huge suits to the adult eye but to the young kids in Pod 1 they are the sort of 25-foot behemoths that populate Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park.
The Dinosaur Circus is essentially a vehicle for typical circus tomfoolery, with the appearance of ‘live’ dinosaurs simply being an added extra, but the level of expertise of display is high enough to sate the fickle appetite of the assembled under-tens. In fact, Treehead’s group throws in enough adult gags and multigenerational entertainment to make this mid-afternoon romp enjoyable for the whole family.
Dinosaur Circus is far from cerebral entertainment but that is far from the point. Instead it is loud, fast and silly and that definitely seem to works when it comes to keeping children entertained. Treehead and his cohorts aren’t in the same league as the Cirque du Soliel but they are proving to be damn entertaining all the same.
4/5
Richard Biggs
