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| - LAME! This is my first Cirque show, and hopefully will be my last. Yes, the engineering on the stage movements and design is mind boggling, and the performers are talented acrobats, but I didnt know what the fuck was going on during the entire performance. I was afraid the performers would notice the contorted look of confusion and dismay on my face and fall off their ropes. First they're on a boat that sinks, then some of them wash up on a sandy shore, then somehow they're in an arctic tundra, and then in a lush jungle, and finally in some volcanic underground lair. Again, WTF? The synopsis on the Ka website didnt help. Just dispense with the impossible to follow "storyline" and have the players jumping around in colorful outfits doing insane things with their bodies. I can accept that. And why are the characters talking in gibberish? And why must there be the insipid comic relief elements, this time in the form of bad French-like mimes? And this might be picky, but during group scenes, some of the performers were out of sync with one another. Sometimes a performer would notice he was out of sync, then stop what he was doing, and join in again later when he could actually keep up the pace. I know these performers are generally talented, but I guess I was expecting more from Cirque.
Maybe the nudie Cirque shows are better.
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