... Galotti , Faust I , Faust II , and Lulu . Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Not Clown, Off Center, Austin, Texas, 2004. Pictured: Robert Pierson as Doctor (top) and Rommel Sulit as Sam. Photo: Kenneth B. Gall Steve Moore and Carlos Treviño Not Clown Characters...

...Joel Schechter The Age and Stage of George L. Fox by Laurence Senelick (University of New England Press, 1988). Mr. Fox: A Rumination on the Life of a Clown by Bill Irwin, with Geoff Hoyle and Friends (Seattle Rep, April, 1992). Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Ron Jenkins Copyright © THEATER 1992 1992 URBAN SLAPSTICK: FROM CHAPLIN‘S TRAMP TO IARCHAOS’S METAL CLOWNS...

... exchanges into wildly funny sequences. get a similar opportunity to play behavior Ubu continuously switches In effect, we are following several dif- charades for their lives. They get the from character to actor to clown. He ferent levels of action or “texts within right answer...

...Joel Schechter Clown Scenes by Tristan Rémy, Translated from the French, with a foreword by Bernard Sahlins, 1997: Ivan R. Dee, Inc. Copyright © Theater 1998 1998 ...

... Copyright © 1999 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 1999 GOVERNMENTOF CLOWNS The Bindlestzff Farnib Cirkus, Interviewed by Annie Dorsen The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus is a touring an- Upon this depends our success with an audi- archist...

...Ron Jenkins; Joel Schechter Copyright © THEATER 1987 1987 CLOWNING ENTREE (AN INTRODUCTION) RON JENKINS AND JOEL SCHECHTEI...

... scenes using stock characters, circus clowning, cornmedia dell’arte Jerzy Grotowski. well-known scenarios, and current and modern improvisational comedy I Saltirnbanchi opened with Carlo. gossip or news of the city they were per- which easily bridged the language bar- dressed...

... talented clowns before the trative district. Provost Lieutenant-General Durovs, but most of them - Richard Zelyony . Ribaud, Billy Hayden and Tanti-Bedini, “For action deleterious...

... complex, character-based show that defies conventional 1988. Last Summer, from May 22 to June 9, they labels in its yoking together such apparently disparate presented Mump and Smmt in 'Caged' . . . with Wog at realms as clowning and horror. New York's Off-Broadway...

... for the C.E.A.D. in Montreal, and adapted Dario Fo has been called by Franco Zeffirelli "a great actor, Enzenberger's Sinking ofthe Titanic for the stage. He teaches a great director, and a great clown, the last great clown of our...

...; the music underpins the emotional heart of key moments thrctughotlt the performance. ‘‘Thew contemporary clowns greatest artists of earlier popular forms. McGraths conscious appeal to the explore the issues of failure From the beginning of the modem era, heartstrings...

... not hear the routine before writing In Alexander Serafimovichs novel, The Iron Flood, Red troops on the about it. ’Ristan Remy in Les Clowns and John ’Ibwsen in Clowns, seem to T march find themselves...

... of the was far more vulnerable to producers intrinsic carnival anarchy of the Mr. Fox: A Rumination on the Life of a selling his talent offstage. Fox was the fairground puppet theaters. This mistrust, Clown most popular clown in America 125 years...

... JOHN TOWSEN y far the funniest thing I’ve seen ly what it resembled. Three 6 ” x 4 ” rec- classic clown routines. Was it mere coin- Bon television in recent years took tangular holes were cut in the plastic, cidence, or had the space agency bla- place not on the Cosby Show...

... of the was far more vulnerable to producers intrinsic carnival anarchy of the Mr. Fox: A Rumination on the Life of a selling his talent offstage. Fox was the fairground puppet theaters. This mistrust, Clown most popular clown in America 125 years...

...Stanley Moss Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 Zero Mostel 1915-1977 Sir, 0 my Clown, the man in your image was a bestiary, sweet as sugar, beautiful...

... Rice began his career with an act that Dan Rice (1823-1900) was an American seemed to be ideally attuned to the self- clown who transformed his circus tent into reliant and anti-intellectual mood of the na...

... sent feathers, ribbons, toilet paper, and soap intense urgency. As the stage becomes inundated, and their bubbles sailing through the air; the audience has done the attempts futile, the clowns abandon the struggle in favor of wave; and, finally, a grotesque group of, well, people, dancing...

...- George Jean Nathan (1937) thers, and others such as The Clown Con- spiracy, Michael Moscher, and puppeteer Armed with the mechanical accoutre- Bruce D. Schwartz are all under age 35, ments of their trade - bottomless trunks too young to have...