SOAP- THE SHOW

Who would have thought ten years ago, when we started to play around with acrobats in, on, under and around bathtubs, that our show SOAP would today still tour around the globe and entertain audiences at home and in far-away places. The idea was simple: how do you play with water, its sensuality and have fun whilst doing it? The bathtub is a place where human beings feel safe, protected, secure; a little bit like in a mother’s womb. In a bathtub, people do things that they would not necessarily do somewhere else, for instance they sing opera or play with a rubber duck. In the beginning, I developed an acrobatic number combining a water-filled bathtub with an aerial straps act. We presented it at the Royal Variety Performance to the delight of the audience in the live show, a huge number on TV and some members of the British royal family. But soon after, we felt like telling a whole story or a collection of short episodes and we began to experiment with different characters, like in a soap opera. We found out, that bodies and water match very well on stage and that sensuality greatly increases when the bodies get wet. 

Markus Pabst