At This Circus Festival, the Highflying Meets the Highbrow
Summary
Their poodle, Sokha, plays an unlikely circus animal too lazy to follow instructions, and puppets with wiry bodies and expressive painted faces get their own acrobatic displays. “Extension,” created in 2014, brings gas tanks and an excavator to the stage, and revolves around the revenge of a paraplegic performer, the charismatic Rémi Lecocq. Mr. Lecocq returns with the excavator to wreak havoc on the thieves’ balancing acts, performed with wooden planks positioned on the gas tanks. With Mr. Lecocq’s fully realized character at the wheel, Cirque Inextremiste also does inclusiveness without the reverence so often reserved for disabled performers. Even after the curtain calls, this sardonic show can’t resist one more uncomfortable joke: He reappears in his wheelchair as the janitor tasked with cleaning up confetti, and (jovially) makes the children in the audience feel guilty enough to join him.
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