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A refreshing take on the circus experience
CHEEKY: Tweedy and Dany Rivelino [Andy Payne]

¡Carpa!
Giffords Circus
Chiswick House, London

LOOSELY themed around the goings-on at fiesta time in a 19th-century Mexican village, ¡Carpa! (Spanish for tent) is delightful circus fare for all the family — funny, cheeky and occasionally spectacular.  

One or two of the performers are actually Mexican — including  actor Adriana Duch Carvallo, making her debut under canvas as the comically villainous village matriarch Dona Rosa Francisca.

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