What is Slack Taxi? From the name alone you'd guess it to be some lazy good-for-nothin' cabbie permanantly parked on the lonliest cab-rank in slowest part Nowhereville. Or from the photos it could be the invasion of a bunch of steroid-fed escapees from a giant's technicolour circus.
Pick the latter and you're getting close. Slack Taxi is, in essence, exciting, interactive physical theatre that can be booked to perform at your function or event.

A visually stunning Australian physical theatre troupe.
Slack Taxi was founded by Artistic Director/Manager, Jen Martin , (click for full history) in early 1994. From producing original shows at high profile Australian events, Slack Taxi has developed into a national and international touring troupe by 2000, taking spectacular wandering characters all over the world. Roving performances have become the most popluar of Slack Taxi performances, with characters evolving from stiltwalkers in bodypaint and exciting costumes in the mid 1990's. By the late 90's 4 metre tall Giant Puppets and innovative designs for stilts including Fat Ballerinas, Funky Clowns and Origami Creatures were created and launched to international audiences. The early 2000's saw the dynamic acrobatic stunt characters - The Bouncers created.
Please access never stops and services pages for descriptions of roving characters.
All have toured Australia, Europe, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

A Spectacular Attraction

Slack Taxi brings spectacle, colour and fun to all events, large, small, festival and corporate, taking entertainment right into the crowds.
Slack Taxi has worked with over 60 professional artists and draws from an exciting pool of performers.
Professional dancers, circus performers, actors and musicians have all brought their skill and creativity to Slack Taxi.
Always driven by director and manager Jen Martin, the core group of artists is ever evolving. World class street performer Nigel D Martin, alias "Mr Spin" has been one of the core to Slack Taxi's outstanding success since 1998.
Artist Steve Hayter is the designer who has created most of Slack Taxi's amazing large scale designs since 1996.

Makeup and bodypaint artists Jodee Lenaine-Smith and Jo Tucker created Slack Taxi's bodypainted characters from 1994 and on, with Lenaine-Smith also designing and creating the ever popular Fat Ballerinas in 1998.
The Taxi has recorded original music by some of South Australia's leading musicians in 1994-1998 productions - access in Real Audio on the "portfolio" pages.

2000-2008 and on ...
Slack Taxi's roving characters have toured extensively under the direction and management of Jen. Travelling to Europe in 2000 and 2002, Slack Taxi took roving performances to Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark and England. International touring has been vital to the groups ongoing develpment and success.
Singapore has embraced Slack Taxi in these years as has Japan with 6 tours to each country between 2000 and 2007.
New goblin characters have commenced development during this time.
With Jen having spent 5 years from 2003-2007 gaining in depth corporate experience in business and communication, the coming years are set to see Slack Taxi break further new ground.