The Circus Tavern is an entertainment venue in Purfleet, Essex, England which hosts functions, cabaret acts and is also a nightclub venue. However, it is most famous as having been a long-time venue of the PDC World Darts Championship.
It was the venue of the championships from its inauguration in 1994, although the championship's size and popularity outgrew the venue and the PDC announced that the championship would move to the Alexandra Palace for the 2008 PDC World Darts Championship. However, in late 2008 it was announced that the inaugural Players Championship Finals would be held there between January 30 and February 1, 2009 for the top 32 from the previous year's Players Championship Order of Merit.
It was also the venue for the opening round and the play-offs of the BetFred League of Legends.
Famous quotes containing the words circus and/or tavern:
“The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall.... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn’t do if your life depended on it.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“At a tavern hereabouts the hostler greeted our horse as an old acquaintance, though he did not remember the driver.... Every man to his trade. I am not acquainted with a single horse in the world, not even the one that kicked me.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)