text: LAME This is my first Cirque show and hopefully will be my last Yes the engineering on the stage movements and design is mind boggling and the performers are talented acrobats but I did not know what the fuck was going on during the entire performance I was afraid the performers would notice the contorted look of confusion and dismay on my face and fall off their ropes First they are on a boat that sinks then some of them wash up on a sandy shore then somehow they are in an arctic tundra and then in a lush jungle and finally in some volcanic underground lair Again WTF The synopsis on the Ka website did not help Just dispense with the impossible to follow storyline and have the players jumping around in colorful outfits doing insane things with their bodies I can accept that And why are the characters talking in gibberish And why must there be the insipid comic relief elements this time in the form of bad Frenchlike mimes And this might be picky but during group scenes some of the performers were out of sync with one another Sometimes a performer would notice he was out of sync then stop what he was doing and join in again later when he could actually keep up the pace I know these performers are generally talented but I guess I was expecting more from Cirque nnMaybe the nudie Cirque shows are better