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KÀ

Fodor's Review:

For its fourth show on the Strip, Cirque du Soleil knew it had to swing for the fences to keep from lapsing into repetition. KÀ is the company's bold step into linear storytelling, an attempt to unfurl a live version of such martial-arts period fantasies as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Canadian director Robert Lepage, best known in the United States for directing two Peter Gabriel tours, brings his opera-meets-music video sensibility to the adventures of two separated twins. Most show goers confess to being confused by the story, which is told without dialogue, but are blown away by the state-of-the-art stagecraft. The spectacle includes huge puppets and live-time video that responds to the movement of the performers. Even the notion of a fixed stage is replaced by an 80,000-pound deck that's maneuvered by a giant gantry arm into all sorts of positions, including vertical. Even if the show lacks an emotional knockout punch, it's still an amazing achievement.

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