{"id":940446,"date":"2026-10-20T20:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940446\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:20:10","slug":"finding-utopia-cirque-du-soleil-will-be-planting-a-field-of-dreams-at-montreals-old-port-next-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940446\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Utopia: Cirque du Soleil will be planting a field of dreams at Montreal&#8217;s Old Port next spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cirque du Soleil will pitch a new tent next spring in the Old Port, the Montreal-based circus troupe announced Tuesday, promising a \u201csurrealist\u201d show centred on an imagined farmer\u2019s field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show\u2019s tent will replicate an outdoor scene, director and writer Michel Laprise told reporters, with artificial wind blowing through fans and a sky pictured in the background.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat you\u2019ll have in front of you will be 800 blades of wheat,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ll step into (the tent) to find yourself outside.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cirque du Soleil will pitch a new tent next spring in the Old Port, the Montreal-based circus troupe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-940446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}