Cast
As in every Cirque show, in addition to the performances, there are several distinctive characters that participate in the show sometimes as performers and sometimes as spectators. In La Nouba, these include:
- Green bird: She is a flightless bird, out of her cage, and is very marionettesque in her actions.
- Cons: The "nuts", dressed in all-white, are the ever present fools of the show.
- Titan: A mysterious "muscle man" who confronts everyone on stage while contorting his body in unusual poses. He performs in the trampoline, power track act.
- Walker: Dressed in grey pinstripes, with a small bowler hat atop, he strolls around stage à la Charlie Chaplin.
- Acrobatic pierrot: This Pierrot appears as a red acrobat. He's the adversary of the Titan until he joins him in mutual admiration at the end of the show.
- Dancers: The Romeo and Juliet of the show. One is a Pierrot clown where the other is a lost ballerina.
- Clowns: Balthazar and Sergei provide comic relief in a world of comedy.
- Cleaning woman: Also referred to as Petite Madame, is shocked to be in this world and astonished by what goes on around her, she sweeps and dusts nonetheless until her dream becomes a reality.
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