Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia features turntables with a 10-foot diameter pool in the center that serves as a key focal point during part of the show. But while it would appear that the show production wastes a lot of water to fill and drain this scenic element, “we don’t actually drain it out,” clarifies the show’s technical director, Mitchell Hunt. Cirque du Soleil strives to be environmentally responsible, “so we recycle as much of the water as we possibly can. What you wouldn’t have seen as an audience member is that we actually have a full-sized semitrailer water treatment plant placed behind the big top. That trailer has water storage, water filtration, chlorination and UV systems, and a heating system as well as the pumps and the mechanisms that are there to run the whole system, which is fully automated and regulated.”
-Bryan Reesman, from “Inside Theater,” PLSN, Aug. 2019, page 24
