...Ng Yi-Sheng © 2014 by Ng Yi-Sheng 2014 Ong Keng Sen addressing artists, French Institute, Flying Circus Project, Yangon, Burma, 2013. Photo: Ng Yi-­Sheng Ng Yi-Sheng­ Joining the World The Flying Circus Project 2013 in Burma I. Arrivals In January 2013, I traveled...

...W.D. King Copyright © THEATER 1986 1986 “NAILED TO A CIRCUS OF BLOOD”: AJAX AT THE AMERICAN NATIONAL THEATER...

... Domestic Bread and Puppet Circuses is domestic Bread and Puppet Resurrection Circus!” The joke, which resurrection, there is usually a more Theater rehearsal most of the audience understands...

... opens the 1985 edition of the the rings twenty feet above the circus floor, unnatural skill com- Big Apple Circus, dazzles audiences with an unusual combination of plements natural beauty. For a moment, she just hangs there, a body daring, strength and beauty. In spotlight, she enters...

... immunity from prosecution. Few acts Nikulin, Durov and some other Russian clowns have like his can be seen in Russian circuses today, in Moscow or performed circus acts which celebrate the triumph of abroad. The comic tradition Durov enlarged has become animals over human cruelty...

... __ - __ - -- . _. . - Laurence Senelick “If he, the nobleman Vladimir Durov, shows. The circus was an entertainment that again indulges in any manner of improper appealed to all levels of society and thus pro- behavior and uncalled...

.... The two circuses and lasted for nearly twenty song tells the story of a slave who escapes years. from the South, and meets hypocritical Poster for Dan Rice’s circus. treatment from his would-be-benefactors...

... at the hands of the nazis in their comedy has been remodeled to fit the modern The Great Dictator, and dares to play the role of Hitler adversaries their laughter is intended to subvert. One of the himself. Tyrannized by poverty and blinded by greed, most popular circuses in Europe now features...

..., puppet shows, harle- cuses. “Not great circuses with ele- But it was no problem. The language quinades, pantomimes, and perhaps phants and performing lions,” explains barrier became part of the comic text. most importantly - circus clowning. Alberto in a program note, “but the Knowing...

... ly took tinsel town, but went from that he started in 1981 has now become one triumph to an extended run in the Le of the most popular circuses in North Grand Pomme and a film deal with Col- America - Le Cirque du...

... preference for extravagant circus spectacle were made available to me by several of Rice’s Photo Credits over the intimacy of a one ring show with a descendants in Long Branch, N.J. and Girard, Pennsylvania, whose assistance I gratefully talking clown...

...John Bell Copyright © Theater 1994 1994 For further information, see Bell , John “The Bread and Puppet Theatre in Nicaragua, 1987.” New Theatre Quarterly, 17 (February 1989 ). Bell , John “The Nineteenth Annual Domestic Resurrection Circus.” Theater , 18 : 3 (Summer...

... and performance about mat?your connection with thepunk scene, or with anarchism and circuses. a group like the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, which often has an antagonistic relationship with the au- dience? What did you say about anarchism...

... burlesque as the new-circus style that characterizes much of the show. For all its of-the-moment erotic hipness, the act also recalls the famous Bubble...

... burlesque as the new-circus style that characterizes much of the show. For all its of-the-moment erotic hipness, the act also recalls the famous Bubble...

... burlesque as the new-circus style that characterizes much of the show. For all its of-the-moment erotic hipness, the act also recalls the famous Bubble...

... Pisoni, co-founder of joined the applause. In any other context, this moment would the Pickle Family Circus, ex-Pickles Bill Irwin and Geoff Hoyle, have been a touching tribute from one generation to another. and New York-based clown Avner the Eccentric - an extraor- Here it became an emblem: the new...

... with college educations, cer- pseudo-Russian jugglers passing eight balls tified circus performers and artists with for- back and forth while reciting a lengthy por- 48 tion of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...

... enters and sings Redemisti crucem passus; bmthe base of the village, a miniature non alongside the Juan puppet. As the tantus labor sit cassus. circus banner is marched up the road. is Juan...