Cirkus Inferno, the loudest and quietest show in town, gives us Jonah Logan, a super physical comedian, as a dead-pan Buster Keaton in conflict with everything in his environment and Amy Gordon, the supplest rubberband on skates, who is a Chaplinesque mime and a dancer/acrobat with a bit of Imogene Coca and Lily Tomlin in her.
This is a superior clown show with amazing live sound effects created by James Fisher, and Anthony Venisse, a cross between M. Hulot and Pee Wee Herman, as a harried stage manager. See the fire-spewing dog! Shiver as you hear it bark and growl! See the fiery pogo stick! See the greatest vacuum machine in the world! Explosions! Smoke! Crashes, bashes, mashes and smashes! These are great, stylized comic performers. Logan's knockabout/fall down skills are a rare treat, and Gordon's bit with a ukulele is brilliant; she sings in about twenty voices, personas, physicalities.
What a show! Directed with exquisite timing by the great mime/innovator, Rene Bazinet, I'd say Cirkus Inferno is for kids from about six to ninety. Too shocking and exciting for younger or older than that; thrilling for the rest of us.
