Shaolin Monks - Wheel of Life

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Entertainment from 4 to 22 November 2008

Hackney Empire 291 Mare Street, London E8 1EJ

The Ultimate Masters of Kung Ful - Shaolin Monks - Wheel of Life

The Shaolin Monk's Wheel of Life stage show is the critically acclaimed live Kung-fu extravaganza that has thrilled and astonished audiences all over the world and which now returns to London for a strictly limited season this November.

Watch in amazement as the monks are lifted aloft on sharpened spears, break iron bars on their heads, smash concrete blocks whilst lying between beds of nails and swords, perform handstands on two fingers and splinter wooden staves against their bodies.

The Shaolin Monks have previously presented their show Kung Fu Masters at The Peacock Theatre for a four week season in October 2007 (10 October to 3 November 2007)

The warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple return to London for a four week season. Twenty Shaolin Monks and five young trainees have travelled all the way from the Shaolin Temple in China, to demonstrate their martial arts expertise.

"Hair-raising brilliance" The Daily Telegraph

In a crescendo of kung-fu sequences, the Shaolin Monks are lifted aloft on sharpened spears, splinter wooden blocks with their bare hands, break bricks on their heads and fly through the air in a series of incredible backflips and spins.

"Jaw dropping" The London Evening Standard

Imaginative music, combined with high technology lighting and a stage set that evokes the mysterious world of the east has produced a visual event that is colourful, exciting and dramatic. This combination of explosive power, imaginative theatrics and traditional story-telling will produce an event for which there is no parallel. This show - Shaolin Monks Kung-Fu Masters Live - is the Shaolin legend made real and is definately NOT to be tried at home!