Delirium - Cirque du Soleil

It was last minute. Very last minute. Two days ago I found that Cirque were showing "Delirium" in Birmingham. And there were some tickets still available. OK, so we saw a Cirque show only two months ago, but I love them, and it just had to be a good thing to do.

Wow. Yes, again I say, Wow.

So you do have to get your head around the fact that this is not a normal Cirque show (there's such a thing as a NORMAL cirque show I hear you ask). The music comes foremost in Delirium, it is really a music piece rather than circus. But there is so much going on. We were sitting further back than usual and, for this show, that was a good thing. Either side of he stage there are huge screens and they form part of it. A lot of visual imagery with film adding to it all. The difficulty, as always, is that there is so much going on that there is no way you can take it all in. Watch the videos playing on the screens and you miss the performers, watch the performers and you miss the videos.

The music is fantastic. They have taken their favourite tracks from all the shows, remixed them and made the show around them. Very upbeat, loads of energy.

There are still one or two tickets for this at the O2 dome. Go.