Puzzle
What happens when five circus performers take over the Forecourt?
Event details
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Saturday, 26 September 2026 | 12:00pm |
| Saturday, 26 September 2026 | 2:00pm |
| Saturday, 26 September 2026 | 4:00pm |
| Sunday, 27 September 2026 | 12:00pm |
| Sunday, 27 September 2026 | 2:00pm |
| Sunday, 27 September 2026 | 4:00pm |
| Monday, 28 September 2026 | 11:30am |
| Monday, 28 September 2026 | 1:30pm |
| Monday, 28 September 2026 | 3:00pm |
| Tuesday, 29 September 2026 | 11:30am |
| Tuesday, 29 September 2026 | 1:30pm |
| Wednesday, 30 September 2026 | 11:00am |
| Wednesday, 30 September 2026 | 1:00pm |
| Wednesday, 30 September 2026 | 3:30pm |
| Thursday, 1 October 2026 | 11:00am |
| Thursday, 1 October 2026 | 1:00pm |
This event is one of many free experiences offered as part of Wild Things. Explore the full free program and see what else is available.
Highly visual. No dialogue.
The Forecourt is wheelchair accessible. For further information on accessibility, please contact our Accessibility team.
Event duration is a guide only and may be subject to change.
Children aged 15 years and under must be accompanied at all times.
The Opera House is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children that visit or engage with us. Read our Child Safety Policy.
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Why the Wild Things Festival Curator loves this showWe love the cheekiness and fun these performers bring to their athletic performance, and the daring physical journey they take us on.
Meet the cast
Artistic Director of FOCASA Circus. A graduate of the Department of Folk Arts and Acrobatics at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts and of the Department of Physical Education and Health at the University of Taipei. Exposed to folk sports and acrobatic performance from a young age, he is self-taught in hat juggling and brings rich stage experience and deep circus technique, frequently serving as performance and technical director across the company’s works. In 2011 he co-founded FOCASA Circus with Lin Chih-Wei, and since 2016 he has been the company’s artistic director and senior performer.
Currently Executive Project Manager at FOCASA Circus, she is a graduate of the Graduate Institute of Arts Administration and Management at the Taipei National University of the Arts, and is originally from Hsinchu, Taiwan.
She has previously worked as a theatre program producer at the Cloud Gate Culture and Arts Foundation, production assistant at EX-Theatre Asia, administrative manager at Tsao Yu Tian Dance Theatre, and executive producer at Lai Tsui-Shuang Dance Theatre, across both dance and theatre.
A graduate of the Department of Folk Arts and Acrobatics at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts; her specialty is the cigar box. A lover of the performing arts, she has taken part in diverse theatre, circus and street-art performances, and treasures the process of connecting with audiences on stage. She hopes to keep exploring herself through performance and to bring joy and feeling to her audiences.
Her past performance has been the touring production German Cultural Knot — Endless Theatre Arts, the presidential inauguration ceremony, PaperWindmill’s 368 Children’s Art Project and the Tini Tinou International Circus Festival.
A graduate of the Department of Physical Education and Health at the University of Taipei. He joined FOCASA in 2021, specializing in handstands and chair-balancing, and is also skilled in juggling, diabolo and a range of acrobatic disciplines. He has taken leading roles in many FOCASA productions.
A graduate of the Department of Folk Arts and Acrobatics at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts. He has been immersed in the performing arts since the fifth grade of elementary school and has accumulated more than twelve years of professional training and stage experience. He focuses on contemporary circus and object manipulation, holding a deep and distinctive understanding of the movement and rhythm of juggling objects in relation to the body.
A Taipei native and a graduate of the Department of Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts. From 2014 to 2023 he was a full-time dancer with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, spanning the tenures of artistic directors Lin Hwai-Min and Cheng Tsung-Lung; he performed in numerous works, often in leading roles, and toured worldwide with the company. Since leaving in 2024 he has remained active and continued to broaden his performance range. He is currently a freelance dancer, dance teacher and director of the company Bai Dao Chang.
A graduate of the Department of Folk Arts and Acrobatics at the National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, specialising in contortion and aerial hoop. She has appeared in several FOCASA Circus productions and also performed in dance productions showcased at the 3rd Edition of Stray Bird Dance Platform, a work later invited to the New Dance for Asia festival in South Korea.
A graduate of the Acrobatic Dance Division, Department of Sports Arts, at the University of Taipei. He joined FOCASA in 2023 and specializes in cube and acrobatic body skills. His stage credits include A Dialogue between Technology and Art (2019), the Sports Arts School annual performance Prime Numbers (2019), the Department of Sports Arts annual performance Double Happiness (囍, 2020) and the circus duo work Cosmic Adventure (2023).
A graduate of the Department of Dance at Taipei National University of the Arts. She joined FOCASA in 2024. Previously, she has toured with the company to the United States and Canada. She has also performed in the Chien Wen-Pin × Helen Lai Piazzolla operetta The Forgotten María, the World Dance Alliance’s Drifting (Palmer Mathews) and Kaohsiung City Ballet’s Dancing Shoes series.
About FOCASA Circus
Founded in 2011, FOCASA Circus is Taiwan's first professional contemporary circus company, dedicated to advancing the art of contemporary circus. Since 2017, the company has been recognised for nine consecutive years by the National Culture and Arts Foundation as a recipient of the TAIWAN TOP Performing Arts Group.
Over the past fifteen years, FOCASA Circus has pioneered and cultivated the contemporary circus scene in Taiwan, transforming the island into fertile ground for the genre's growth. The company stages over 100 performances annually, both at home and abroad, and has toured 98 cities across 25 countries. Their presence has been featured on major international stages, including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Festival OFF d'Avignon.
In 2023, FOCASA launched Taiwan's first circus arts festival, attracting over 80,000 audience members and featuring international companies from 8 countries. The second edition in 2025 expanded to three circus tents, hosted an even broader range of international companies, and welcomed 250,000 audiences.
Attending this event
Venue information
Our foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
All Sydney Opera House foyers are pram accessible, with lifts to the main and western foyers. The public lift to all foyers is accessible from the corridor near the escalators on the Lower Concourse and also in the Western Foyer via the corridor on the Ground Level (at the top of the escalators). Pram parking will be available outside the theatres in the Western Foyer.
Getting here
The Sydney Opera House Car Park, operated by Wilson Parking, is open and available to use. Wilson Parking offer discounted parking if you book ahead. Please see the Wilson Parking website for details.
Please check the Transport NSW website for the latest advice and information on travel. You can catch public transport (bus, train, ferry) to Circular Quay and enjoy a 7-10 minute walk to the Opera House.
Frequently asked questions
Ticket purchases and collection at our Box Office is discouraged and eTicket or postal delivery methods should be used, wherever possible. However, if you are collecting your tickets from the Box Office, we recommend doing this at least 60 minutes before the event starts. If you have already received your tickets, the venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Please take your seats as soon as you arrive.
If you are late, we will seat you as soon as we can and, where possible, in your allocated seat. However, to reduce movement in the venue as well as minimise disruption to the performance and other patrons, ticketholders may be seated in an allocated latecomer’s seat. Please be aware that some events have lock-out periods. In these cases, latecomers will be admitted at a suitable break in the performance. On occasions, this may not be until the interval, or at all where there is no interval.
Details of our right to refuse admission can be found in our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Events.
In accordance with our venue security procedures, Opera House security will be scanning and checking bags under the Monumental Stairs, prior to entering the building. Bags will be scanned by an x-ray machine, and staff will wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) when handling your belongings, such as gloves. Cloaking facilities will be open 60 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 60 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. However it is strongly encouraged that you travel lightly to minimise contact and queuing. Any bags larger than an A4 piece of paper will need to be checked into the Cloak Room.
The authorised agency for this event is the Sydney Opera House.
Only tickets purchased by authorised agencies should be considered reliable. If you purchase tickets from a non-authorised agency such as Ticketmaster Resale, Viagogo, Ticketbis, eBay, Gumtree, Tickets Australia or any other unauthorised seller, you risk that these tickets are fake, void or have previously been cancelled. Resale restriction applies. For more details, please refer to our General Terms and Conditions for Tickets and Attendance at Events.
Please contact Box Office on +61 2 9250 7777 as soon as possible to advise if you can no longer attend.
Foyers will be open 90 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and two hours pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances. Refreshments will be available for purchase from our theatre bars.
The venue doors will be open 45 minutes pre-show for Concert Hall and Joan Sutherland Theatre performances, and 30 minutes pre-show for Western Foyer venue performances.
Please bring a credit or debit card for any on site purchases to enable contactless payment. You’re welcome to bring your own water bottle but no other food and drinks are permitted inside our venues.
The health, safety and wellbeing of everyone at the Sydney Opera House is our top priority. In line with this commitment, the Opera House became a smoke-free site in January 2022. Read our Smoke-free Environment Policy.
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Location and access
Forecourt
Set below the famous white sails the Forecourt is located at the base of the Monumental Steps, between the Opera House and the Royal Botanic Gardens.