Kooza
From: Saturday, 5th January 2013
To: Sunday, 10 February 2013
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Synopsis
KOOZA tells the story of The Innocent, a melancholy loner in search of his place in the world. KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil: It combines two circus traditions - acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. The show highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful m?lange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor. The Innocent's journey brings him into contact with a panoply of comic characters such as the King, the Trickster, the Pickpocket, and the Obnoxious Tourist and his Bad Dog. Between strength and fragility, laughter and smiles, turmoil and harmony, KOOZA explores themes of fear, identity, recognition and power. The show is set in an electrifying and exotic visual world full of surprises, thrills, chills, audacity and total involvement.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 9 January 2013
Cirque du Soleil have dropped the hippie-drippy nonsense about the meaning of life and the soul of the universe and gone back to what they know best: fantastic circus acts, colourful vaudevillian costumes, raucous town square music and a tremendous finale of back-flipping, somersaulting gymnasts, some of them on stilts.
Admittedly in Kooza, which dates from 2007 in the Cirque’s repertoire, we still have the irritant of an audience-baiting warm up, with emergency horn signals, flashing lights and a trio of clowns who are only fairly funny for some of the time.
But the simple setting of a carnivalesque carousel-cum-pavilion, with a band of wheezy jazz and rock musicians and a couple of mellifluous girl singers, creates the right circus atmosphere for a succession of world class turns where the Big Top holds sway over alternative cabaret, despite the lack of live animals.
There is one animal, but he’s a furry big dog with a girl inside, and ...
Latest User Review
Giammy - 10 February 2013:
don't waste your money. It's nothing special really. Clowns take too much time of the show, you can see them in Covent Garden for free if you like them. Also the story about the clowns had no sense. Performances were too few and already seen around. Better value for money: Moscow Circus...
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Cirque du Soleil (Company)
David Shiner (Author)
David Shiner (Director)
Serge Roy (Director)
Stephane Roy (Design)
Marie-Chantale Vaillancourt (Costume)
Jean-Francois Cote (Music)
Clarence Ford (Choreographer)
Martin Labrecque (Lighting)
Jonathan Deans (Sound)
Leon Rothenberg (Sound)
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