The 2017 Norfolk & Norwich Festival

The Norfolk & Norwich Festival, the largest arts festival in the East of England and one of the four largest in the UK, recently announced the first shows of its 2017 festival. The flagship arts festival for the East of England, the festival showcases some of the world’s most renowned international artists alongside regional talent, drawing audiences from across the UK. The festival runs from 12-28 May 2017. With more to be announced later in the year, festival highlights for 2017 include: the return of circus cabaret troupe Race Horse Company with their latest show Super Sunday; Akram Khan Company’s acclaimed show Chotto Desh and Quarantine’s epic about the human life cycle - Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. - comprising live performance and film. After the success of White Nights at the festival in 2016, the Race Horse Company will return to Norwich with Super Sunday, the newest show from the acclaimed Finnish circus troupe with a reputation for madcap antics. Super Sunday contains enough fear-inducing circus stunts to stop audiences looking away, with flying, thrills and skills. From Akram Khan Company is Chotto Desh, fusing dance, storytelling, interactive animation and specially composed music. Chotto Desh, Bengali for ‘small homeland’, is a thrilling and poignant tale of a young man’s dreams and memories from Britain to Bangladesh. Chotto Desh draws on Khan’s unique quality of cross-cultural storytelling weaving together a story of a boy who dreams of becoming a dancer, and of a mythical child who angers forest gods by collecting honey. Quarantine's Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. is a quartet about the human life cycle, living, dying, and our relationship with time, from the internationally renowned theatre company. Comprising three live performances and a film, this piece of mass portraiture is huge in scale, ambition and subject. Each piece has a distinct focus on life, a microcosm for society.