To See the Stars Again is a major new creation from Circa that asks what it means to believe in hope without being naive about darkness. Staged on a field of hundreds of lightbulbs; a landscape that becomes both constellation and terrain – twelve acrobats and four live musicians traverse an ascent from witnessing through transformation to transcendence. The title comes from the final line of Dante’s Inferno: after the darkest depths, the poet emerges to glimpse the stars once more. In fact, all three books of Dante’s Divine Comedy end with the word “stelle” (stars). It is one of literature’s great unifying gestures, and here it becomes the structural spine of the creation.

This is circus that earns its optimism through real risk, real bodies, real virtuosity. The danger is authentic. The hope emerges from risk.