Love

As reported, everything was all about excess in Las Vegas. This was especially true of the new Cirque show, Love. It was based on The Beatles, their music and their creative lives. It was also the MOST visual encounter either of us have ever experienced in theatre.
The show was in a new 2,000 seat theatre in The Mirage. The stage, as it normally is with Cirque , was in the center. Normal ended there. There were all sorts of screens and huge sheeer curtains, entrances from four corners and a stage that submerged and returned in constantly changing forms.

There were few of the usual type acts but lots of coming down from the ceiling and returning there into the darkness. There was even an effect that covered the entire audience. All of this might be imagined but the protean quality of the show defies description and thus imagination. There was no way at any time to see all that was taking place and what was taking place was at once sad, joyeous, violent, funny, graceful, frightening, colorful and beautiful. The performance made me think of a contemporary western mind.

Of course, no pictures were allowed so all you have here is the entrance that changed colors every few seconds and part of a sigh with the title of the show LOVE. It is significant to note( and a theme of the show and it's era ) that the word LOVE is contained, on the flip side, in the word REVOLUTION.

OH, and if you look VERY closely at the green image you will see me!