The Seeker’s crew includes some very cool insect-like robots (though I could see these being a bit scary to the youngest kids) plus two characters who show up on billboards around town advertising the show: Nico the accordion man (whose costume contracts and expands like an accordion) and Mr.
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The themes of sound and electricity run throughout the show with a set full of wonderful makeshift mechanical objects, cobbled from things like gramophones, turbines, electrical bulbs and typewriters. As spectators in the 62-foot-high Grand Chapiteau, we’re drawn inside the curio cabinet of a quasi-inventor (the Seeker) filled with unusual objects collected on his travels. “It’s like Jules Verne meets Thomas Edison in an alternate reality, out of time,” explains Cirque set designer Stéphane Roy. Kurios evokes a Victorian steampunk vibe set in what show creators call “a retro future,” referencing the beginning of the industrial revolution when the steam engine reigned supreme. Cirque combines over-the-top showmanship, thrilling acrobatic daring, humor, wonderful live music, precise choreography and stunning sets and costumes to weave a completely enthralling fantasy world under the big top. To the uninitiated, Cirque du Soleil is not your standard-issue circus (no live animal acts or floppy-footed clowns).
Jaw dropping is not an exaggeration when it comes to the spectacle that is Quebéc-based Cirque, whose latest production, Kurios, is being performed at Marymoor Park through March 22. Partway through the first act of Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios, I lost count of how many times I heard “Oh my God” and “How do they do that?” out of my kids’ mouths.
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