The Anti-Cirque Du Soleil

After 25 years, No Fit State Circus (yes, that’s what it’s called) “can justly claim to be one of the world’s leading exponents of contemporary circus. … You can hear the miked-up breath of the performers, smell their sweat, look into their eyes, touch the hem of their raggedy garments. It’s very consciously the opposite of the antiseptic enormo-shows put on by the globe-stomping Cirque du Soleil.”