Café the Glowing Pickle

Electric Circus’s new show was launched last summer. It has been received with great enthusiasm at various festivals, to be continued in season 2025!

‘The Glowing Pickle bar’
...is a fully automatic show, with mechanical puppets in a miniature theater. This theater with its mini-performers comes to life thanks to a self-designed program. This technique gives the audience the feeling that live puppetry is taking place.
For many it's probably the first fully automated puppet show they have ever seen, and certainly the most vivid.

The sound of that squeaking door was the inspiration for this story. An extensive investigation has been carried out (and is still going) to the acoustic and mechanical generation of a squeaking door and other particular bar-sounds. In the little story the chaotic bar noises eventually transform in a real ritmic piece of music.

Its music without speakers and animation without screen.


installation
The public is welcomed into a small tent attached to the Electric Circus van. In this tent, the public can take place at a bar. The theater itself is installed inside the van, visible through a large hole in the van. When the curtain in between the public and the theatre opens, the bar appears to be part of the whole scene; a cozy miniature café. Here, the story of ‘the Glowing Pickle bar’ unfolds:

..At first it is not the most exiting bar, the locals are in their daily pattern. But then the door opens with a squeaking sound.. a stranger comes in and that changes everything…


The 6-minute performance can be experienced in groups of about 10 visitors.