Lost and Found Festival

So here it is!  The Pear Shape team are delighted to announce that on Wednesday this week we shall be performing 'Here Come the Brides' as part of Lost and Found Festival in Manchester.

'Here Come the Brides' is a unique form of walkabout street theatre, fused with a giant public game of cat and mouse, interactive story-telling and our own special brand of ‘secret circus’.  Over three 45 minute performances we tell the story of a hapless Groom who just can’t help falling in love, and has to decide what to do when faced with three angry Brides…

We would also like to introduce the arrival of a new Groom to the Pear Shape fold, the gorgeous Matt Pang, street performer and juggler extraordinaire, who's just arrived back from a summer working with his own Circus Theatre Company, PanGottic in exciting locations such as Berlin, South Korea and, ahem, Peterborough.  We truly can't wait to get married to Matt, and hope you'll be able to join us on September 26th in various locations around Manchester (including the tram network!) to see which one of us will get her man...  Find out more at about the Festival and all of the other lovely companies involved at www.contactmcr.com/lost&found.

And finally, we now have our very own logo, with hoodies and T-shirts to boot.  We think they're rather snazzy, although Mary is threatening to wear hers everyday without ever washing it.  Hmmm... not sure that'll help the quest for love.

Hello world...

Welcome to Pear Shape Productions!  We are Catherine Boot and Mary Maw, and Pear Shape is an emerging female theatre company, which creates work that tells true stories (some of which we made up), and blurs boundaries between the everyday and the some day...

We met whilst studying Contemporary Circus and Physical Performance at Circomedia in Bristol, where we discovered a shared love for street theatre, honest, humorous and sometimes tragic narratives, and pink wine.

Currently, Pear Shape consists of two street theatre acts, which are available for booking.  The first is The Double D's, aka Dangerous and Delicious.  This is a static circle show which sees both performers desperately trying to find boyfriends before their biological clocks run out of batteries.  We win over the audience (and our future husbands) through breathtaking circus skills and charming (if a little hopeless) comedy and, or course, love.

"This fleeting moment was pure unadulterated fun!  Thanks Double D's, it was a pleasure!"

-Justin John, willing volunteer, Bath

Our second act is 'Here Come the Brides', a unique form of walkabout street theatre, mixed with a giant public game of hide and seek, interactive story-telling and ‘secret circus’.  Over three 45-minute sets, we tell the story of a hapless Groom who just can’t help falling in love, and hasn’t really considered the consequences of his romantic actions.  This Act utilises the local architecture and landscape to create a bespoke story for every setting we play.

Watch this space for a very exciting announcement of where you'll be able to catch this Act in the not too distant future...