Performance
Touring the world since 2000, Peter Sweet’s performance style combines strong, expressive characters with comedy, circus and live music. His love of the audience, and of creating work that brings his inner world to life for them, has driven him to perform over a thousand shows in more than twenty five countries.
Coming Soon! - "Foolish Doom!"
Sweet is currently in the research phase of creating a fantasical tragic comedy about climate debate with co-performer Leonie Baker.
Featured Performances
BOOM!
Directed by Matteo Destro
Co-Created and Performed by Peter Sweet and David Poznic
Breathing new life into the ancient tradition of masked theater, Peter Sweet and David Poznic portray a troup of 6 characters who put on an entire circus. With impossible skills, live music and heart-touching drama, they tell the story of this hilarious cast of would-be circus stars.
Meet Pete
Created and Performed by Peter Sweet
Meet Pete is a hilarious display of danger, charm and technical virtuosity. Incorporating slack rope acrobatics, juggling, singing and dancing into his show, Pete Sweet weaves together his diverse physical skills with unbridled comedy. While his wild antics have astounded audiences in more than two-dozen countries worldwide, it is his warm, generous humanity and exuberant love of life that opens their hearts.
The Devil and Billy Markham
Created and Performed by Peter Sweet
Original text by Shell Silverstien
The gripping tale of Billy Markham, a blues man who rolls dice with the devil, unfolds in vivid detail. With simple gestures and profound character play Sweet brings the scene to life and sweeps the audience off on a wild ride to hell and back.
The Dusk Beat Circus
Co-Created by Peter Sweet, David Poznic and David Bernbaum
In the early beginnings of his career in contemporary circus, Sweet performed and co-directed a dramatic otherworldly circus show that toured theaters in California from 2002-2003
Career Hightlights
Tete a Tete, Rastadt, Germany
Kleiness Fest, Hanover
, Germany
Comedy Arts Festival, Moers , Germany
Via Thea, Görlitz , Germany
Sommer Szene, Saarbrucken , Germany
Kultursommer, Ludwigshaven, Germany
Gauklerfest, Koblenz, Germany
La Strada, Bremen, Germany
Neues Theater, Frankfurt Hoechst, Germany
Internationales Straßenkulturfest, Nordhorn, Germany
Just for Fun 2007 Darmstadt , Germany
Viva-Cité 2011 Sotteville les Rouen , France
Les Accroche Coeurs, Angers, France
Les Zaccros d‘ma rue, Nevers, France
Les Rias, Pays de Quimperlé, France
Fest’Arts, Libourne, France
Parade(s), Nanterre, France
les Rues Joyeuses, Tourcoing, France
Les Éclectiques, Carvin, France
Fete Dans La Ville, Amiens, France
The London City Opera House, London, England
Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, USA
Porsgrunn Int. Theater Festival, Porsgrunn, Norway
Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth, England
Waterford Spraoi, Waterford, Ireland
Festival of fools, Belfast, Ireland
Žongléros Ansámbl, Pilsen, Czech Republic
Waves Festival, Vordingborg, Denmark
Festival de la Juventud 2008 Torrelavega, Spain
ULIKA Int. Street Theatre Festival, Krakow, Poland
Leuven in Scene, Leuven, Netherlands
Bruneck Festival, Bruneck, Italy
World Busker’s Festival, Christchurch, New Zealand
Toronto International Buskerfest, Toronto, Canada
Weiwuying Circus Arts Festival, Kaosiung, Taiwan
Nyepi Festival 2001 Hard Rock Hotel Bali, Indonesia
Rock The Buckets Festival, Sydney, Australia
Da Guan Yuan Theater , Bejing, China
Artisti Di Strada, Ascona , Switzerland
Oerol 2006 Terschellings , Netherlands