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| - LOVE is a very different Cirque du Soleil show.
Zarkana, and many of their traveling shows like OVO, emphasize the Cirque's more traditional circus performances, but have been dressed up in Cirque du Soleil style with ostentatious costumes and extravagant set designs. Your focus while watching these shows is often on the act on stage -- whether its a high-wire act or two acrobats on a spinning wheel -- and less so about what is happening around them.
LOVE pulls you in from every angle imaginable, and more than just literally.
The seating is set up like a Maltese cross, where everyone gets a different view and angle of what's happening on the stage. But you're also surrounded by giant digital screens that display video wallpaper that complements each performance, hanging semi-transparent fabric screens that drop down every so often when projected silhouettes of the Beatles are needed to put an era of Beatlemania into context, and sound effects and live music that emanate from the theatre and your seat's headrest, which creates a fully immersive, panoramic experience.
What's more, the performances on stage that meld dance and acrobatics to the musical legacy of the Beatles often feature multiple performers on stage at the same time. This creates a somewhat frenetic and disorienting effect at first, as your eyes and brain try to reconcile how all the elements you are seeing fit together, and you wonder where to focus your attention -- like trying to focus on a single popcorn kernel in a large pot, with all of the other kernels popping over each other at the same time.
But if you allow yourself to let go, and stop thinking, and enjoy the ride, your rewarded with a very magical mystery tour that starts resonating with you emotionally, and this is what really makes this show so memorable.
LOVE's music, performances, and its aural and visual aesthetics simply move you throughout, from song to song, as its loose story takes you through the sad and sorrowful WWII blitz bombing of England with "Because", some exhilarating high-energy roller skating stunts paired with "Help", the whimsical and mercurial teeter-totter and trapeze act performed to the equally whimsical and mercurial "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and the ever-so-poignant "Hey Jude" that follows the heart-breaking story told on stage in "A Day in the Life".
Of all the Cirque shows I have seen, I would see this one again in a heartbeat, to once again experience the feelings of sheer bliss and wonderment it left with me.
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