Hanafuda Denki: A Tale of Playing Cards - It's Cirque Surreal

Hanafuda Denki only has three performances in total (last one is Sunday at 10:10pm) so get your tickets while you can! Imported from Tokyo, the experience of this show was so frantic, fantastical and fragmented that prose cannot do it justice. I recommend that you go and see it with your own eyes.

Failing that, I present you a review in poem form:

The lights are up, the players mingle
Newspaper crunch and haunting cackles
Lights go down and off we go!

Shocking and sensational actors crowd the stage.
Time goes. Tick. Tock.
Subtitles linger over heads that thrash and sing.

Sad macabre, dolls and princes
Gender is just the garb you wear.
I am confused, I am delighted
Slick in chaos, funny in fear.

Carnival and circus music,
Poetry and somber tones.
Nervous snickers, nervous laughter
Cabaret does death kids show.