There's something a little twisted— literally—about the way members of Circus Oz walk and fly and juggle. Says artistic director Mike Finch, 34, "Performers aren't defined by what they're best at, but by how they work in the community. The real meat of the one-ring show is how they're cooperating, and the connection with the audience. They're not stars, they're weirdos, working hard with each other." One Australian theater scholar calls Finch a "larrikin," sort of a wild boy, but his focus and discipline are clear; recruited to run the show in 1997, he'd previously been an acrobat, juggler, and filmmaker, and he ran an enterprise called... More >>>