Welcome One & All
CARAVAN STAGE COMPANY
A Non-Profit Performance Troupe
Welcome One & All
CARAVAN STAGE COMPANY
A Non-Profit Performance Troupe
About the Caravan
The Caravan Stage Company is a nomadic performance company, originally touring in horse drawn wagons from 1970 to 1992, performing on the wagons inside a unique tensile tent, then on a custom-built theatre ship, AMARA ZEE, from 1993 to 2022, with the shows staged on the ship and on the land in front of the ship, & now on a schooner sailing ship, with presentations of animation, music & live performers, the Caravan Lanterna Magica.
About the Caravan
The Caravan Stage Company is a nomadic performance company, originally touring in horse drawn wagons from 1970 to 1992, performing on the wagons inside a unique tensile tent, then on a custom-built theatre ship, AMARA ZEE, from 1993 to 2024, with the shows staged on the ship and on the land in front of the ship, & now on a schooner sailing ship, with presentations of animation, music & live performers, the Caravan Lanterna Magica.
“There is absolutely nothing like the Caravan Stage Company anywhere else in the world.”
— Catherine O’Grady, Executive Director, Ottawa International Jazz Festival —
The Caravan has performed in small communities and major world cities for 55 years. The performances have taken place on the grass in parks, schools, hospitals and universities, and at waterfront sites in marinas and city ports. Some of the major cities that the Caravan has visited and performed are: New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, St Petersburg, Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, Savannah, Detroit, San Francisco, Portland, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Vienna, Budapest, Istanbul, Athens, Venice, Catania, Salerno, Kotor, Thessaloniki, Izola, Durrës and many more…
“It made me want to run away with the circus!”
— Reg Flowers, Artistic Director, Falconworks Artists Group, Brooklyn, NY —
The reason for these unusual Caravan venues is to create an enticing, alluring environment in order to attract a popular, non-traditional, diverse audience to experience a performance of original theatre with a content that resonates within the dreams and angst of peoples & species inhabiting this planet… now! The Caravan shows are a mosaic of character, music, poetry, dance, aerials, video, and lighting effects, in a continuous weave of elements & mediums to generate an environment that is both surreal & evocative.
“The surreal in Director Paul Kirby’s production trips the mind to a receptivity surpassing consciousness – the audience inhales rather than analyses, as we perceive a higher human sense of self.”
— Kingston NY Daily Freeman, Review of “Trapped”, 1999 —
Over the past five decades and continuing into the present times, the Caravan was founded and managed and directed by the creative coupled energies of
Paul Kirby & Adriana Nans Kelder and their sons Elia, Sergeo, Tallis
Caravan Horse Drawn Era: 1970-1992
The Caravan Stage Company, by simply existing, is an extraordinary force of magic and theatre.
— Bob Allen, Theatre Critic, Vancouver Province, 1977 —
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Caravan Horse Drawn Era: 1970-1992
The Caravan Stage Company, by simply existing, is an extraordinary force of magic and theatre.
— Bob Allen, Theatre Critic, Vancouver Province, 1977 —
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Caravan Amara Zee Era: 1993-2024
Your show was a wonderfully imaginative, poetic, fanciful work, with a serious comment on the world today. I know of no other theatre company doing the extraordinary work that the Caravan does.
— Howard Zinn, Author, Historian, Playwright, Professor, Boston, US, 2005 —
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Caravan Amara Zee Era: 1993-2024
Your show was a wonderfully imaginative, poetic, fanciful work, with a serious comment on the world today. I know of no other theatre company doing the extraordinary work that the Caravan does.
— Howard Zinn, Author, Historian, Playwright, Professor, Boston, US, 2005 —
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Caravan Ombrazee: 2025 Onward…
The sheer vision & dedication devoted to the Caravan practice is staggering. Kelder & Kirby clearly still have more stories to tell in their new venture.
— Brendon Lorimer, Art-Critique, Paris, France. 09/2022 —
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