Catherine wheel
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Set to Carl Orff’s dramatic score, the production includes a giant moving Catherine wheel and a live chorus seated on a floating platform above the stage.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
We think: is this going to be another misfire; an exploding Catherine wheel scorching the bark off a tree; a toppled rocket screaming horizontally into the laburnums followed by the awful yelping of a dog?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2014
LiVolsi pointed to what looked like a whipping Catherine wheel, with spikes that spurted powder into paper packets, 50 blurring past in every second.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2014
The first Catherine wheel will be lit in roughly 100 days' time, 200 tops.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 21, 2012
“Stand clear all,” said Syd, as the old man made the marlin-spike spin round like a Catherine wheel at the end of three feet of the line.
From Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea by Gordon Browne
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