Walk My World: how an immersive circus became a Budapest must-see

Imagine a 6,000 sq metre warehouse reconfigured into 40 smaller performing spaces: on one side the fallen remains of Troy, on the other Carthage, at the centre a labyrinth and above a decadent realm of gods. Walk My World, which opened in Budapest last year, stages multiple performances simultaneously across a two-hour running time.

Part modern circus, part dance, part cabaret, it is immersive theatre on an epic scale with 26 performers and a loose narrative drawn from Dido and Aeneas; audiences are free to wander and discover scenes that range from brief solos to half-hour ensemble sequences.

The show is the work of Bence Vági, founder and artistic director of Hungarian contemporary circus company Recirquel. Born in the final decade of the cold war, his early theatre experience was circus; his family left Hungary when he was five and lived in West Germany for five years before returning after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Hungary, Budapest

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