Carnivale Lune Bleue
Carnivale Lune Bleue was a success even before it opened last year. Part-carnival, part-festival, part-time travel adventure, this self-contained summer event was destined to be an Ottawa hit.
It begins with the great story of a man named Wayne Van De Graff who dreamed of opening a 1930s style carnival, complete with an antique Ferris wheel and employees – all local actors, I might add – that embodied the style of early twentieth century carnies. It continues with three top-notch side show acts, consisting of Carnival Diablo, not for the squeamish or easily terrified; Cirque Maroc, an intimate Cirque du Soleil type of performance; and Great Snakes of the World, where you get to fondle a giant albino python. And it concludes with a classic midway, a freakish museum, an old-time restaurant, a psychic, and an irreverent funeral that ends in boisterous dancing.
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Cirque Maroc
Cirque Maroc
Cirque Maroc
I was considering going again this year, but since it’s so far away and I was anticipating that it’d be roughly the same, I didn’t go back. Maybe next year.
The guy from Carnival Diablo was doing his Paranormal Show in Toronto at the Campbell House late last year and I went to see that. The atmosphere of that show was very good. The house itself is quite small (it is a single-dwelling house) and they forced everyone to gather in a candle-lit foyer before going up the spiral staircase to the ballroom to start the event. His character was pretty much the same as Nikolai Diablo’s and he did some of the same solo bits from C.Diablo, but added some extra mind-reading stuff and because it was a much smaller audience (by design), there was audience participation on the stage. It then concluded with a seance in the cellar. Very creative and a very intimate atmosphere with an unusual level of audience participation.