Cirque du Soleil’s ‘Echo’ provides thrills, strange animals, one big Cube

High-flying acrobats, insane puppetry and performers clad in weird animal masks – so many animal masks, from rams to koalas to parrots – you know that Cirque du Soleil is back in town.

For its production of “Echo,” on tour since 2023, the Canadian entertainment troupe has settled on San Francisco’s Oracle Park for its wonderment headquarters. How to describe the plot of this surreal show? Well, the heroes seem to be a woman named Future and Dog, her human-canine hybrid companion. They’re...