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

In another corner, there's a vast Catherine wheel that visitors will be able to spin.

From The Guardian • Apr. 29, 2013

But the Catherine wheel, done at the last moment on one leg and then an amazing leap into the air backwards, again brings down the house.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)