Caliban’s stealing me away. He gives my date a glance — ‘You with her?’ — then jealously whisks me away. This pre-show audience warm-up bit is a clown echo of his character’s role in the Shakespeare plot on which Cirque du Soleil’s Amaluna is based. The show’s Caliban (Viktor Kee) is joined by a Miranda (Ikhertsetseg Bayarsaikhan) and Prospera (Julie McInnes). But there’s a Romeo, not a Ferdinand (Édouard Doye). Director Diane Paulus hasn’t only mashed up Shakespeare: at the media preview, she explained that she also threw in The Magic Flute—which she directed for the Canadian Opera Company last year—and Greek mythology for good measure.