Goffee

Goffee and Day Horsedrawn Circus Tour of Yorkshire

1984 April 1st. Founded first National New
Circus Convention and continued to organise for the next ten
years.

Founded Circus Dda. Toured Wales and the
Welsh Borders with “Taliesen” -
Britain’s first travelling and tented New Circus Show.

Circus Dda.

1985-88

The Great Goffeee Clown Shows – tightrope, sousaphone, circus skills, COMEDY and a goose.

Toured all major British Children’s Festivals and toured to Israel, Holland and France.

The Great Goffeee Clown Shows

Arts Play Umbrella UK Tours and Solo tours from Shetland to Lands Ends.

Organised Theatre and New Circus Masterclasses.

I have continued performing as a clown ever since but in 1989 a new interest emerged, that of Fire and Elemental Theatre.

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The following dates are a brief selection and exclude wedding, parties and small events

1989

“Bordertown” – multi-media community production Monmouth, S. Wales.Built and manned fiery funeral Barge of
Henry V and co built large dragon fire sculpture.

1990

“Dark Castle” St Donat’s Castle, S. Wales.

- Masterclass with Boris Howarth

- Multi location theatre – wrote and performed “The Butler’s Story”

1991

“The Whale” Shetland, Scotland - directed community fire theatre and built Whale fire sculpture. (10 x 6 metres).

Torchlight procession 1992 “Burn the Sun, Light the Moon”, Hay-on-Wye – founded and directed Hay-on-Fire. Torchlight procession and spectacular fire theatre, massed fire performers, giant puppets, fire labyrinths, wicker giants, fire sculptures on
land and water, fireworks, traction engine, horses, music and drama.

1993

“Pinball Ball Wizard” ‘Hay-on-Fire’ Arthurian elemental Epic!

Founder and Director “Festival Fringe”

1994

“Merlin’s Rage”
Glastonbury Festival – performance and largest firel labyrinth ever built

“The Faerie King”
Hay-on-Fire magical fire theatre – giant processional dragons and floating faerie castle

“Fire and Lantern Festival”,
Llantwit Major, S Wales (St Donat’s Arts Centre) -’Burning Heart’ wicker giant, fire and fireworks

‘Solstice Warrior’
- Mexico, Pacific Coast – burning giant, music and dance

“Festival Fringe”
Hay Literary Festival – Director

1995

Huehuecoytl
Mexico, Tepoztlan – coyote fire labyrinth and celebration

‘Eye of the Soul’
St Donat’s Castle, S Wales – fire theatre collaboration with SWICA

‘Oberon’s Fire’
Hay-on-Fire. The biggest and most spectacular
fire event in Wales. My final year as devisor and director.

‘Crafts in Action’
St Donat’s Castle – wicker giant

‘Colyn the Pirate’
Llantwit Major, S Wales – Lantern procession,
burning galleons and fire theatre for St Donat’s Arts Centre.

1996

‘Merlin’s Rage’
Los Angeles, USA – director and performer, fire labyrinth and theatre

Trigo Limpo teatro acert;
Portugal. Fire workshops and performance

Santiago de Compostela;
Spain – Fire workshops and performance

‘Fire Finale’
Hay Literary Festival

‘Summerisle’
The Wicker Man – Mid Wales Festival – comedy fire performance and wicker giant

‘St Illtud’s Eve’
Llantwit Major (St Donat’s Arts Centre) now established as S Wales major annual festival of lanterns and fire theatre – Director

1997

‘Book of Fire – Prospero’
Hay Literary Festival Finale – Shakespearian Fire theatre

‘Severn Revels’
Forest of Dean – Festival fire finale

‘George and the Dragon’
International Festival of the Arts,
Tbilisi, Georgia – fire theatre in collaboration with festival
performers and Georgian artists

Festival Finale;
Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival, St Donat’s Castle – labyrinth and collaboration with festival performers.

‘St Illtud’s Eve’
Llantwit Major – annual lantern and fire festival

1998

‘Cranes on Fire’
Tbilisi, Georgia – fire and feasting

‘Fire Tree’
Hay Literary Festival Finale – fire, fireworks and trees.

‘The Eye of Winter’ Wysing Arts, Cambridge – eye fire labyrinth procession and performance.

1998-99

Callenic (New Year’s Eve) Cardiff City Council
Devising, directing a new annual New Year’s Eve celebration and event for Wales’s capital city in collaboration with SWICA – grand procession of bands, dancers and lanterns and huge fire sculptures
‘The Holly King’

1999

‘Making the May King’
Crafts in Action, St Donat’s Castle - building and decorating a wicker giant and working with students of Atlantic College

‘Fire dragon’
Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival Finale, St Donat’s Castle – colourful procession with ‘May
King’ and wedding of the faerie princess and the Green Man - Music, fire sculptures, children and fireworks

‘Fire on Water’
Hay Literary Festival Finale – 26′ high wicker giant floating down the river on fire with fireworks
“Thank-God-I-was-there-moment” JW in The Independent

‘Venus of the Valleys’
community project with No Fit State Circus – Botticelli’s Venus on fire

1999

‘Millennium Fire Labyrinth’
Traquair House, Scotland, 30 x 10 yds