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I studied with Arne in 1995 and he’s very knowledgeable and an excellent teacher.  I’m sure he’s gotten better with age!  To the left are examples of the masks he uses. Workshop Description: The ability to imagine yourself into someone else’s psyche and physicality is profoundly supported by working with masks. Whether your theatrical projects are masked or unmasked, Arne […]

The Clown Revue is Back! After a hiatus (and a sad possible extinction), I’m happy to report that the NY Downtown Clown Revue is back. Be sure to catch the first performance of the 5th Season! It’s at a new location (Dixon Place) See below for details. SHOW INFO: COMMISSIONED ACTS: Commission #1: Create an act with a Melancholy Tramp Character. Commissioned Artist: Kevin […]

ADAM’S TAKE This show relies heavily on the charms of the two actors, and it largely succeeds. Jeff and Chris (or shall we call him Buttons) are a good match of energy and demeanor. They both are unmistakably clowns, but with a downtown urban air. They are both not traditional showman, but have a studied non-chalance that suits their po-mo […]

This is a great idea for a show, at a venue that looks like it produces all kinds of great stuff. Conceived and created by Chicago area burl-q-uers , the show will feature  Chicago favorite Coo d’Twat as Mario, and Lily e’Claire (a recent import from the Champaign burlesque scene) as Luigi,  as well as  introduce six new performers to […]

ADAM’S TAKE I’m blogging about this a little bit after the fact.  I saw this on the double bill with Perhaps Perhaps. Overall, I thought this was a really fun show.  Olivia the clown builds an interesting world, and invites us inside.  She is a waiter at a Chinese restaurant, and she secretly dreams of being her comic book hero, […]

ADAM’S TAKE This show was a delight to watch. Gabriel Munoz as the Bride sets a hilarious and startling image as a woman in a bridal dress eating cake. The first three minutes of her wordlessly eating cake are terrific. She lets you imagine why she’s there. After that she acknowledges the audience, and starts to let us in on […]

ADAM’S TAKE: This is a bouffon show (if you are not sure what bouffon is, take a look here) with an oversized character Ferdinand, wearing a Hitler hairdo, a gigantic diaper, a too-revealing pink body suit, and a nose that makes Jimmy Durante’s shnozz seem delicate and quaint. The show starts off in a typical bouffon fashion- the character enters, […]

ADAM’S TAKE I was really hoping to like this show. When I did the San Francisco Fringe Festival a number of years ago, there was an improv troupe doing something very similar, (they were supposedly an improv troupe from an hitherto undiscovered Slovakian country, and they were hilarious) The director of Theatre Dzieci is a student of Jerzy Grotowski, and […]

Pat Cashin recently posted a rave of a show going on at the McCarter Theatre now through October 17.    I saw Victoria Chaplin, Jean Baptiste Thierrée, and their son James perform two shows at the ART back in the early 1990’s, and I was very excited then.  This is a show by their daughter Aurelia.  I’m very much looking […]

While I’m busy blogging for the Clown Festival at the Brick Theatre, the 29th annual ClownFest is just getting ready to occur in lovely Seaside, NJ.  Clownfest bills itself as “America’s Grandest Clown Celebration”  I can’t really say if that’s true or not (I am not there- how could it be?  :O) )  They definitely have a lot of stuff […]

ADAM’S TAKE This was a fantastic show.  These two Canadian clowns have a well-thought out, well-oiled show that takes on the rather sensitive topic of menstruation.  From the toilet/throne that is the main set piece for the show, to the Leo DiCaprio poster on the wall, this show hits a number of just the right tones to keep the audience […]

ADAM’S TAKE: This female duo has good energy between them, and some of the circus skills displayed (including a really delightful bouncing ball trick with a jumprope) are downright entertaining. Their opening has a fair amount of promise [although I’ve seen something similar 3 or 4 times in other shows, thankfully not at THIS festival] Both clowns have strong understandings […]

ADAM’S TAKE First off, let’s get a couple of things straight. I love Miss Saturn.  I think Miss Saturn is a very funny improvisor and a virtuosic level hula-hooper. I’ve worked with her at several venues, and seen several different pieces that she’s done, and I in general love most of what I’ve seen.  I was really looking forward to […]

ADAM’S TAKE: I met Vincenzo Tortorici 18+ years ago at the 1992 International Clown Congress in Philadelphia (part of MTI)  We hung out, bonded then, and like most festivals, at the end we went our separate ways.  We haven’t seen each other since then, so I was really glad to hear that he was performing at the Festival, and I’d […]

Here’s where I’ve put a link to all of the other Clown Festival reviewers.  The latest reviews are listed here. http://www.clownlink.com/clownfest2010/ I’m going to be reviewing a bunch of shows for the festival, and my reviews, will be included within these pages. It’s an RSS pipe (meaning it’s all done automagically)– so a couple of non-festival posts may also be […]

Calling All Clowns! A Clown Parade, Public Pie Fight and opening night cabaret will usher in the New York Clown Theater Festival on Friday, September 3. Come hoot, honk, holler, and roll through the city in the most preposterous manner possible. We’ll gather in Union Square at 5 pm, and at 5:30, we’ll take over the L train. The pandemonium […]