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Flyerers Of The Week: Members Of The "Cirque" Production Team

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.

UTB: What’s "ur-language?"

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/

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