Even since I started this blog, I have got a few of my friends to visit it... Most of them would probe ~ 'What is Quidam?' (pronounced: 'KEY-dahm'). I would like to have a brief explanation of Quidam here, of which the text I extracted from Cirque du Soleil's (Circus of Soleil's, in English) official website. Quidam is an imaginery character in one musical performance. Quidam represents - "he is somebody and he is nobody"... Please see below:
Quidam: a nameless passer-by, a solitary figure lingering on a street corner, a person rushing past. It could be anyone, anybody. Someone coming, going, living in our anonymous society. A member of the crowd, one of the silent majority. The one who cries out, sings and dreams within us all.
This is the "quidam" that Cirque du Soleil is celebrating. A young girl fumes; she has already seen everything there is to see, and her world has lost all meaning. Her anger shatters her little world, and she finds herself in the universe of Quidam. She is joined by a joyful companion as well as another character, more mysterious, who will attempt to seduce her with the marvelous, the unsettling, and the terrifying.
The entire show is imagined by a young girl, named Zoe, who is alienated and ignored by her parents. She dreams up the whimsical world of Quidam in an attempt to escape her sadness, hence I put Quidam: Escape of Sadness. He is anonymous; he is everyone, and, at the same time, he is no one.
You shall see one of the posters for this musical that I posted here. They are performing in many countries but sadly not in Brunei. I am hoping to have a chance to see this musical... so if any of you, by any chance, know that they are around Asia, please give me a buzz :) *wink*
Official website of Cirque du Soleil's: www.cirquedusoleil.com
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