“Never liked the circus. I wasn't a curmudgeonly kid, but the notion of the Big Top always filled me with dull dread. Some entertainments are simply meant to die, replaced by snazzier, safer and/or more sophisticated forms of leisure. And that's good-- that's progress. The mystery play, *bangsawan* and blackface burlesque are all happily retired diversions, subject to occasional, ironic revisitatio”
