Cirque Succeeds at Mullins Center
Jeff Bernstein/CollegianBy: Alissa Mesibov dailycollegian.com
October 10, 2011
When one attends a Cirque du Soleil performance, seemingly impossible acrobatics, over the top clowning and beautiful artistic designs can be expected.
“Quidam,” the most recent incarnation of Cirque du Soleil, had all of these elements at the Mullins Center this past week. What set it apart from other shows of the world-renowned company was its refreshingly dark angle. Everything from the plot to the aforementioned clowns was influenced by the show’s overall cynical point of view.
“Quidam” opens on Zoe, a young girl trying to gain her parents’ attention. Neither a headless man nor the elaborate ringmaster can make Zoe’s father look up from his newspaper. These wonderful and mysterious characters lead Zoe away from the apathy of the real world to the hyper-alive dreamscape of “Quidam.”
Surprisingly, the storytelling in “Quidam” was well done. Many of the show’s creative team members had worked on the last Cirque du Soleil production “Alegria,” which suffered from a thorough lack of plot. While Zoe’s individual story does get muffled in the middle of act two, the end of the show wraps the story up nicely.read more: http://dailycollegian.com/2011/10/10/cirque-succeeds-at-mullins-center/
“Quidam,” the most recent incarnation of Cirque du Soleil, had all of these elements at the Mullins Center this past week. What set it apart from other shows of the world-renowned company was its refreshingly dark angle. Everything from the plot to the aforementioned clowns was influenced by the show’s overall cynical point of view.
“Quidam” opens on Zoe, a young girl trying to gain her parents’ attention. Neither a headless man nor the elaborate ringmaster can make Zoe’s father look up from his newspaper. These wonderful and mysterious characters lead Zoe away from the apathy of the real world to the hyper-alive dreamscape of “Quidam.”
Surprisingly, the storytelling in “Quidam” was well done. Many of the show’s creative team members had worked on the last Cirque du Soleil production “Alegria,” which suffered from a thorough lack of plot. While Zoe’s individual story does get muffled in the middle of act two, the end of the show wraps the story up nicely.read more: http://dailycollegian.com/2011/10/10/cirque-succeeds-at-mullins-center/
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