Flyerers Of The Week: Members Of The "Cirque" Production Team
April 10, 2015 at 3:23 pm
This weekend, Stimulus Children's Theater Company and Intuitions Experimental Theater Company are collaborating to put on Cirque. We caught up with our Flyerers of the Week, who told us a bit about the play, all while teaching us about meta-languages, a less frequently advocated form of consent, and their flyering tips, hopes, and dreams.
UTB: Tell me about this event. What is Cirque?
Erini Lemos: Stimulating children and experimenting on children.
Alex Polyack: It’s Aladdin without the misogynistic and racist moments. [Penn student] Sneha Shashikumar adapted six stories –
Jeremy Cohen: – from the Islamic world, two of which are from One Thousand and One Nights –
EL: – And put them in the circus.
JC: Think circus archetypes. Now think narrative archetypes. Now think, what if there is some human “ur-language” through which we can communicate to the young at heart, and the young.
EL: I didn’t know what that was either.
JC: There’s some deep human comprehension that exists in all language that anyone can understand.
AP: Think Cirque du Soleil, except instead of crazy contortionists…with mental contortions.
JC: We have each actor playing 7-8 different characters, each with their own costume.
AP: We’ve transformed The Prince [Theater in Annenberg Performing Arts Center] into a circus tent. We’ve draped the ceiling, and we have a three-ring circus set up in the middle.
UTB: What’s the craziest thing that has happened to you while flyering?
AP: I was interviewed by US News Report. We are rated number one because I recommended they see our brilliant show.
EL: I think the craziest thing that’s happened to me on a walk shift is I sold a ticket.
What would you say your flyering batting average is? How many people take flyers?
AP: Willingly?
JC: Flyering consent is sexy. I don’t hand them if they don’t want them, but they always want them…flyers!
AP: If they look me in the eye…they are going home with a flyer.
UTB: What’s your best flyering tactic?
JC: If they have a bag, just sneak it in there…promise discounts on Canadian narcotics…tell them their ticket is tax deductible.
UTB: Aside from Locust Walk, what are the best and worst flyering locations?
EL: Top of the high rises. Let them loose.
AP: The worst place to flyer would be 9 a.m. Harrison College House. You’re gonna be stampeded if you try to hand out flyers.
UTB: Any final words?
JC: What, are we dying?
For more on Cirque, check out their event page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/432428293601439/.