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The Tenth Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival
Festival of Fools Opening Night
  Paka - Flogging a Dead Horse
Thursday April 30
Writer’s Square, 6.30pm

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After 20 years wandering the planet as a strolling street performer, Paka inherited his Grandmothers electric wheelchair. Somehow, these two facts combined to produce the seed of an idea that turned into a gem of a show.

Paka plays a cantankerous old man lost in the twilight of obsession, having misplaced the line between fantasy and reality, he sets off on one final adventure. With a head full of dreams and a pocketful of nuts and bolts, he is on a quest for love and sunsets to ride off into. A modern day Don Quixote armed with roses, pyrotechnic gadgets and a tantalising whiff of razzmatazz, Paka sets off on this contemporary quest for love, romance and adventure. His companion is Rusty, his mechanical horse – a visual feast which hypnotises audiences through an extraordinary combination of his movement, character and even philosophy!

A unique odyssey, which will leave you wanting more and possibly even wanting your own mechanical horse.

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