| − | Ra-Ra Zoo was an English-based circus theatre company (1984–1994), started by Sue Broadway, Stephen Kent, [[David Spathaky]] and Sue Bradley while they were all working and staying together at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. They opened their first full show at the Battersea Arts Centre as part of the London International Mime Festival in January 1985. | + | Ra-Ra Zoo was an English-based circus theatre company (1984–1994), started by Sue Broadway, Stephen Kent, [[David Spathaky]] and Sue Bradley while they were all working and staying together at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. |
| − | They toured internationally for ten years playing in theatres notable to Africa, South America, Australia and extensively in Europe. Their show under the joint Artistic Direction of David Spathaky and Sue Broadway combined the ethos of 'alternative' comedy of the 1980 with a 1970s revival of Circus skills, variously called 'New or Neo Circus' which largely promoted human skill without the use of animals. Their background in street performing (' The Amazing Mendezies') and the influential Circus Oz (of which Sue Broadway was a founding member) gave the show an irreverent, fast paced, surrealist feel.
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