{"id":363,"date":"2008-11-03T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-03T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=363"},"modified":"2008-11-08T16:43:23","modified_gmt":"2008-11-08T14:43:23","slug":"madame-zingara-dreams-on-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/madame-zingara-dreams-on-to-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Zingara creates a circus in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/span><\/a>Madame Zingara, Cape Town’s “eccentric dinner theatre circus”, \u00a0is on her way to London, and will set up her Spiegelpaleis at the Battersea Power Station from 10 December.\u00a0\u00a0 From March the Theatre of Dreams will move to Dublin and Edinburgh, reports the Cape Argus<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Given that many of the Madame Zingara staff could not get work permits to join the Madame on her journey to London, owner Richard Griffin decided to obtain a second dinner circus venue, which will stay behind in Cape Town.\u00a0 Its name is Mojolena, in honour of two top staff members Mojo and Sweetlana, and opens on 22 November.<\/span><\/p>\n

Madame Zingara’s creative visionary Griffin, who imported the Spiegelpaleis from Belgium when his Loop Street restaurant burnt down two years ago, believes in giving back to the community, and a percentage of the proceeds goes to the Reach for a Dream and Ikamva\u00a0Labantu charities.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Griffin’s team will be serving South African wines and springbok to the 400 UK patrons every night, and says: “We are going as the greatest South African product.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Madame Zingara, Cape Town’s “eccentric dinner theatre circus”, \u00a0is on her way to London, and will set up her Spiegelpaleis at the Battersea Power Station from 10 December.\u00a0\u00a0 From March the Theatre of Dreams will move to Dublin and Edinburgh, reports the Cape Argus. Given that many of the Madame Zingara staff could not get […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,20,22],"tags":[32366,306,309,303,307,308,252,305,304],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t