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JUGGLE & HYDE
Venue: Criterion 1994
Written and directed by The Flying Karamazov Brothers





Nimble of WIT and deft of HAND, the world famous Flying Karamazov Brothers combine THEATRE, music ,COMEDY and of course JUGGLING. HILARIOUS and  EXCITING, they juggle CLEAVERS, knives, and other imaginable and UNIMAGINABLE OBJECTS.


And there is "THE GAMBLE" when YOU, the audience, are invited to bring ANY OBJECT (not less than 1oz, not more than 10lbs and no bigger than a BREAD BOX) and challenge IVAN KARAMAZOV to juggle with it. Ivan has OVERCOME pizzas, DEAD FISH and slinkys but draws the line at live animals.

DMITRI Paul David Magid
IVAN Howard Jay Patterson
RAKITIN Michael Preston
SMERDYAKOV Sam Williams

Review

Mad, I tell you. Working on the brilliant premise of the impossible trick, the Karamazovs have come up trumps again. If they succeed in doing the trick, they have failed. If they fail, then they have succeeded - for the trick must be truly impossible. Impenetrable logic, and the simplest of reasons to indulge in some of the most dramatic juggling to be seen on the London stage in recent times. Not for the Karamazovs the cheap thrills of hurling about flaming clubs. The nearest they get to danger is the spoof scene where they kill or maim each other with a variety of suitably horrific looking instruments. Their show is one long rhapsody in cardboard before a monumental wall of boxes. The Karamazov champion juggler manages to keep two melons and a pie aloft with more panache than you could possibly expect. And, as they conclusively proved to a mesmerised Criterion audience, they can even juggle to an extract from Bach. The jokes are excruciating of course, but they always are. As for juggling, well you just won’t see anything like it anywhere.