Circus Amok is thriving in its eighth year of reinventing the circus form,
borrowing drag fabulousness from Charles Ludlam's Theater of the Ridiculous,
large scale transformation using whole-body masks from Bread and Puppet Theater,
and the outdoor bally and verbal rhythm and repertoire from the sideshow,
as well as movement vocabulary from post-modern dance.
The troupe balances danger with laughter, slipping its critique between the pies in the face and the surreal, scary, and sometimes gender-bent characters of the charivari.

Mark Sussman