LaLaLuna is the story of the night the light went out in the moon, and its caretaker, played by Wolfe Bowart of The Schneedles, had to find a way to defy gravity and replace the bulb. During his quest, though, Bowart (equal parts mime, magician, acrobat and clown) keeps getting distracted’by the washing, a concert performance, and piles and piles of toy rabbits.

This is traditional, old-fashioned clowning. As in, juggling, riding around on a unicycle and sticking your head inside a giant latex bubble kind of traditional. Some people are afraid of clowns (It’s called coulrophobia.), but I can assure you that this one is not at all scary. (However for all the pupaphobics in the house, be warned that the show does briefly feature a puppet with glowing, red eyes.) Bowart’s antics are alternately enchanting and hilarious as he walks a (figurative) tightrope between theatre and circus. Children and adults alike are drawn into the intensely imaginative world he creates’literally in the case of the one lucky audience member who gets to accompany his ukulele performance with some whoopee cushion percussion.

The American based Bowart got his inspiration for LaLaLuna from time spent in Australia’s wide open spaces, so it’s no wonder that he seems so at ease here in the circus-themed surroundings of Umbrella Revolution at Federation Square. Magical, surreal, absurd and very, very funny, LaLaLuna will take you back to a childhood where imagination ruled and the moon was still a mystery.

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