With their 250 year tradition at risk, the circuses knew what they had to do: send in the clowns. More than 50 performers from some of the UK’s top circuses made Downing Street resemble a Big Top on Tuesday as they delivered a letter to Boris Johnson calling for urgent action. The protest included a human cannonball called Eddie and the cannon from which he is propelled through the air during performances. Tightrope walker Ksenia Archer stood on top of a large ball holding a banner that read ‘2 weeks to save the circus’. There are around 30 circuses in the UK which attract annual audiences of 20 million people.

Source: Daily Mail July 07, 2020 21:21 UTC