Giffords Circus
Giffords Circus is a traditional English circus which tours the Cotswolds area every summer.
Established in 2000, Giffords Circus is a small circus company, founded by Nell and Toti Gifford, that tours market towns of the south west. When not on the road the founders concentrate on landscape architecture. Nell was the sister of the designer Emma Bridgewater.
Nell Gifford died on 8 December 2019, aged 46, from cancer.Tours
- 2004 – "Pearl"
- 2006 – "Joplin": with a 1960s theme
- 2008 – "Caravan": set in a horse fair around 1900
- 2010 – "Yasmine": inspired by the life of equestrienne Yasmine Smart, who played herself in the production
- 2011 – "War and Peace": themed around Napoleon's disastrous intrusion into Russia, seen through the eyes of a Russian aristocratic family
- 2012 – "The Saturday Book"
- 2013 – "Lucky 13": based on the culture clash resulting from a high art opera- and ballet-themed circus show that is gatecrashed by a rowdy Transylvanian travelling circus
- 2014 – "The Thunders": with the Greek Gods as its theme
- 2015 – "Moon Songs": blending cultural images of the moon with the story of two young Ethiopian jugglers dreaming of fame
- 2016 – "The Painted Wagon": centred on a group of 19th-century American homesteaders
- 2017 – "Any Port in a Storm": with maritime themes, and telling the story of the circus visiting the 17th-century Spanish court
- 2018 - "My Beautiful Circus": Celebrating 250 years of the invention of the circus as an art form
- 2019 - "Xanadu": With a 1960s, hippy, 'Summer of Love' theme
