The cultural left's aversion to Cirque

It must have been traumatising for Quentin Letts to have to review a performance of Cirque du Soleil, in this case the incredible Varekai.  Cirque does not really meet the criteria of ‘suffering’ for the arts that is important to be considered ‘art’ in the view of the cultural left.

They tend to have an aversion to anything with deep pockets & no doubt see Cirque as nothing more than an evil, capitalist cash cow. Because being a successful business in the arts field is EVIL. You have to suffer for your art or it not really art. Something along those lines, I don’t understand how their stupid little brains work.

Although it seems to me that Varekai would appeal to the cultural left. It definitely has one of the hallmarks of their precious postmodernism; like a fairly incomprehensible narrative! Not in a negative way, but in the sense that it is open to interpretation, which is a good thing.

I imagine Quentin sat there for the entire show, biting his nails, trying to find some plausible neo-feminist angle in the storyline on which to base his critique, the pompous twat. But he didn’t find one, so he denied there was any narrative (Cirque’s version wasn’t “intellectual” enough for him). Because fascinating, “intellectual” types like Quentin don’t do “spectacle”, they only do “art”.