On Friday and Saturday evenings, we invite you to our Garden of Delights, an enticing and alluring little corner designed to indulge your desires and tickle your fancies... 

Once a Garden of Fire (Mintfest 2009), this year Noble's Rest will be transformed into a utopia of performance and pleasure. 

There will be circus performers, side-shows, fairy-tales, fire, puppetry and musical enchantment - but only by truly entering into this fantasy land will you discover the depth of its secrets. 

Let your imagination run riot as you experience our 'pleasure garden for the 21st century'. 

Please see notice boards in the Garden for performance times and locations as these will not be decided in advance.

Download full festival programme here

Artists/Companies ready to delight you in the Garden:

Avanti Display: Mystic Monty  Four leading inventors have created a fortune-telling machine.

Beautiful Creatures: Airquarium A charming, immersive deep-sea experience.

Bob and Bob Jobbins: The Lighthouse Step into the lighthouse-keeper's cosy cabin to listen to his comic stories and anecdotes.

Bootworks: Baby Boxes A murder-mystery of miniscule proportions.

Cat in the Vacuum Theatre: Macbeth A vibrant interpretation of Shakespeare's classic tale.

Cirkatomik (France): Le Photoflamme des Ets Chaufroid An itinerant photo-booth where the flash takes you by surprise.

Cocoloco: The Tom Jones Experience, The Best Thing A portable karaoke experience, plus experience The Best Thing Ever.

Copperdollar: Spidora A sideshow that lures you into a magical visual feast.

De Stilje Want: Bellevue Choose a star and change your life for ever. But don't tell.

Encore: Miss Fortune She'll gaze into her crystal ball and tell your future.

Gumbley & Tweddle: The Museum of Ice Cream A surprising collection of curiosities in an old ice cream van.

Hen's Teeth: Artists' Models They bare all for your entertainment and artistic activity.

Jilted Pig: Poste de Resistance Two revolutionaries make a bid to keep the post office alive.

Joe Sature & Ses Joyeux Osselette (France): Hors Service (Fri only) A team of waiting staff get into screwball situations whilst waiting for customers to arrive, Only You Four wanabees perform a crazy rendition of their favourite Platters hit. (Sat only)

La Malette (France): Bloodbath in the Grass A very dark and devilish version of the wolf and the sheep.

Les Goulus (France): The Horsemen Three French riders perform a dressage demonstration.

Mechanical Menagerie: The Elementree An interactive fire and sound installation, Alfonso Milano's Mechanical Marvels A travelling circus of mechanical oddities.

Only4boys Theatre Company: Krystel du Canters Magical Cocktail Bar (Joe's Cocktail Bar) This magical cocktail bar is new in town and have already earned themselves a bad reputation.

The Pressure Company: The Semi-Automatic Bandstand A collection of surreal, ingenious and marvelous musical instruments.

pa-BOOM Will light your way around the garden.

Safetycatch: MariachoO! A couple of amigos will serenade el gereal publico.

Scopitone: Ze Patrecathodics They are waiting in their vintage caravan to whisk you back to childhood.

Strangelings: The Museum A unique archive of the ordinary-made-extraordinary.

Talking Birds: The Whale A three minute journey in the jaws of a silver whale.

Teatro Metamorphoso (Netherlands)The beautiful Ludmilla transforms into an alarming gorilla before your eyes.

Wildings: Lenny Stobbart Lenny will draw you, warts and all - even if you don't have warts.

Ziya Azazi (Turkey): Dervish in Progress A contemporary installation of traditional Sufi dance, Ember: Trapped in Fire  A work in progress based on repetition and experimental whirling. 

 

Image: Ziya Azazi by Carlos Olmo Matorell

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