+3 Interview: Hotel Paradiso

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“We wanted to tell a simple story about a hotel and its dysfunctional working family that tries to survive – and has to face the reality of a banker that tries to repossess their hotel, a hotel that is also their home.”

WHO: Massimiliano Rossetti: Performer and Artistic Director

WHAT: “Irresistibly colourful, loud and fun show for all the family. Thrillingly spectacular circus skills, physical comedy, clowning, theatrical storytelling and slapstick combine in this follow up to international hit The Hogwallops from good old fashioned contemporary circus company LiT. A rundown hotel becomes a physical playground for the six multinational highly skilled acrobats, clowns and jugglers. Madame and the charming staff of the quirkily ineffective Hotel Paradiso battle to save their home and livelihood from the dastardly banker. ‘The UK’s most acclaimed family circus company’ (WhatsOnStage.com). ‘Packed with inventive comedy and dazzling physical skills’ (StageTalk.co.uk).”

WHERE: Underbelly’s Circus Hub on the Meadows – The Beauty (Venue 360) 

WHEN: 12:10 (60 min)

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Is this your first time to Edinburgh?

This is our 4thtime. Edinburgh Fringe is an amazing buzz – one of the best festivals in the world that I’ve been amongst the festival I’ve been as a performer. It’s vibrant, it’s funny, it’s great to try out work, to have positive feedback and criticism about the show, to see other shows and get inspired. Also, a great chance to get to see old friends and to meet new ones.

What’s the biggest thing to have happened to you since Festivals ’18?

Running our own circus festival in Norwich called the Chapelfield Summer Circus – in its second year – has been a huge success. And non-circus related, I got married to my beautiful wife – also co-director and circus performer.

Tell us about your show.

The concept of Hotel Paradiso came from an idea that we always wanted to try – to represent a very simple narrative about one of the multiple sides of the human condition.

We wanted to tell a simple story about a hotel and its dysfunctional working family that tries to survive – and has to face the reality of a banker that tries to repossess their hotel, a hotel that is also their home.  We tell this very funny story of triumph over adversity and the forces of rampant capitalism organically using high-level circus and the theatre farce of comedy.

This version of the show has specifically been created for the Spiegeltent in Edinburgh and is being premiered during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! You can also see our big top circus tent version of Hotel Paradiso in King’s Lynn in from the 30thThere are so many great shows to enjoy! I look forward to seeing Super Sunday, Ivory Wings and of course DNA from the Casus Circus, and can’t wait to see my friends from Le Coup and Circa on stage again. Their shows offer a variety of things that inspire me: evocative, highly skilled talented performers – and they include movement aspects that I really love, as well as quirky narratives. Humans from Circa, for example, is such an exciting and boundary-pushing combination of dance, theatre and circus. August onwards.

What should your audience see at the festivals after they’ve seen your show?

There are so many great shows to enjoy! I look forward seeing Super Sunday, Ivory Wings and of course DNA from the Casus Circus, and can’t wait to see my friends from Le Coup and Circa on stage again. Their shows offer a variety of things that inspire me: evocative, highly skilled talented performers – and they include movement aspects that I really love, as well as quirky narratives. Humans from Circa for example is such an exciting and boundary-pushing combination of dance, theatre and circus.

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