Max's parents were the artistic directors of Circus Smirkus, a traveling youth circus that tours New England and upstate New York in the summers.
While less common, some acts are represented by agencies such as the international Circus Stardust Entertainment, said Jack Marsh, creative director of American Circus Flora.
The mole has been there for years, and Control (Alexander Knox), the aging, desperately ill director of the Circus, tries to root him out.
Clare Connor is director of Stratford Circus, and Gavin Barlow is CEO of the Albany – both are co-chairs of the National Partnership of Arts Centres Join our community of arts, culture and creative professionals by signing up free to the Guardian Culture Pros Network.
Maben knew Madonna Bouglione, daughter of circus director Joseph Bouglione, who was known to walk about Paris with a dog called Nobs.
Brits love the circus of American Christianity.
"This is a very special event," said Paul Binder, founder and artistic director of the nonprofitBig Apple Circus, which plans to put on similar performances in cities, like Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Washington.
His brother Lan worked with Cirque Plume and is now the art director of Arc en Cirque, the circus school at Chambéry in the French Alps.
