Iris, the company’s Los Angeles show which is closing in January, “isn’t the company’s only high-profile bust. The show joins a list of flops that have tarnished the global Cirque brand in recent years” – including Viva Elvis in Las Vegas, Zaia in Macao (which had been planned, like Iris, for a ten-year run), Zed in Tokyo and the touring show Banana Shpeel.