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Clown Scenes

Author : Tristan Remy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493082078
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Clown Scenes written by Tristan Remy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intimacy of the one-ring circus produced the classic clown routines that flourished until the mid-twentieth century and then disappeared with the rise of the grand circus. They have been lost until now. By seeking out the little band of surviving clowns who worked in the old tradition and setting down their scenes, Tristan Rémy, the eminent circus historian, has rescued a theatrical treasure. Thanks to Rémy's persistence, the forty-eight scenes presented here contain not only the spoken words but the manner of line delivery and the physical turns. So they remain superbly suitable for performance. Most of them are written for just three actors—the white-faced clown, August the stooge, and the supercilious ringmaster. Sets are unnecessary. And their combination of the verbal with the physical has timeless appeal. Bernard Sahlins's translation is masterfully attuned to present-day audiences. In his foreword, Mr. Sahlins notes that these scenes have been continually remounted in Europe, attesting to their fundamental vitality and universality. “Clearly there is a debt, witting and unwitting, owed to the clown of the ring by the great comedians of our century. With this book these scenes and the clowns who invented and played them now take their honored place in our theatrical legacy.”

Clown

Author : Jon Davison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1137300752
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Clown written by Jon Davison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich collection of readings offers a wide-ranging and authoritative survey of clown practices, history and theory, from the origins of the word clown through to contemporary clowning. Covering clowns in theatre, circus, cinema, TV, street and elsewhere, the author's stimulating narrative challenges assumptions and turns orthodoxy on its head.

Clown

Author : Joe Dieffenbacher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350141410
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Clown written by Joe Dieffenbacher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clown: The Physical Comedian is a detailed and comprehensive workbook for those interested in the art of clowning and physical theatre, including actors, directors, improvisers, stand-up comedians, circus artists, mask performers and devisers of new work. Offering an extensive and hugely diverse compilation of tried-and-tested exercises and games, the book is for students, teachers and practitioners to aid ensemble-building, character development, devising theatre, physicalising text and vocalising movement, plus creating cabaret acts, clown routines and adding physical play to scripted scenes. It offers advice on subjects such as developing presence onstage; increasing strength, flexibility and physical expression; developing partner and trio relationships; understanding the power of the mask; and working with an audience - in particular, turning a performance into a conversation with the audience and increasing the actor's ability to connect with a crowd. The exercises and teachings have been developed in classrooms, workshops and theatres all over the world and the book is packed with insights from the author, who has worked for over 35 years in a wide variety of venues, from intimate performance spaces to large-scale sports stadiums.

City of Clowns

Author : Daniel Alarcón
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0399184805
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book City of Clowns written by Daniel Alarcón and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gorgeously rendered graphic novel of Daniel Alarcón’s story City of Clowns. From the author of The King Is Always Above the People, which was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Oscar “Chino” Uribe is a young Peruvian journalist for a local tabloid paper. After the recent death of his philandering father, he must confront the idea of his father’s other family, and how much of his own identity has been shaped by his father’s murky morals. At the same time, he begins to chronicle the life of street clowns, sad characters who populate the violent and corrupt city streets of Lima, and is drawn into their haunting, fantastical world. This remarkably affecting story by Daniel Alarcón was included in his acclaimed first book, War by Candlelight, and now, in collaboration with artist Sheila Alvarado, it takes on a new, thrilling form. This graphic novel, with its short punches of action and images, its stark contrasts between light and dark, truth and fiction, perfectly corresponds to the tone of Chino’s story. With the city of Lima as a character, and the bold visual language from the story, City of Clowns is moving, menacing, and brilliantly vivid.

The Clowning Workbook

Author : Jon Davison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350050431
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Clowning Workbook written by Jon Davison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the techniques and insights of clowning, this book draws on original workshops and research to provide practical clowning exercises to develop wider acting practice in innovative ways. The book offers guidance and explanation to key concepts in clowning, including the dynamics of the clown-audience relationship; the relationship between script, text and improvisation; and movement and voice, offering fresh and inspiring angles from which to view actor training. The Clowning Workbook for Actors and Performers is part of the acclaimed Theatre Arts Workbooks series and features its characteristic blend of student-focused exercises with pedagogical tips for teachers.

Clown Skits for Everyone

Author : Happy Jack Feder
Publisher : Brooklyn Publishers LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780916260750
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Clown Skits for Everyone written by Happy Jack Feder and published by Brooklyn Publishers LLC. This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advice and ideas plus 30 easy-to-perform skits for one or two clown acts.

The Education of a Circus Clown

Author : David Carlyon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113754743X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Education of a Circus Clown written by David Carlyon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.

Studies in English-world Literature

Author : Ottis Bedney Sperlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Studies in English-world Literature written by Ottis Bedney Sperlin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marlowe's Faustus

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Marlowe's Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Resounding Transcendence

Author : Jeffers Engelhardt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199911843
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Resounding Transcendence written by Jeffers Engelhardt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resounding Transcendence is a pathbreaking set of ethnographic and historical essays by leading scholars exploring the ways sacred music effects cultural, political, and religious transitions in the contemporary world. With chapters covering Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and Buddhist practices in East and Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, North America, the Caribbean, North Africa, and Europe, the volume establishes the theoretical and methodological foundations for music scholarship to engage in current debates about modern religion and secular epistemologies. It also transforms those debates through sophisticated, nuanced treatments of sound and music - ubiquitous elements of ritual and religion often glossed over in other disciplines. Resounding Transcendence confronts the relationship of sound, divinity, and religious practice in diverse post-secular contexts. By examining the immanence of transcendence in specific social and historical contexts and rethinking the reified nature of "religion" and "world religions," these authors examine the dynamics of difference and transition within and between sacred musical practices. The work in this volume transitions between traditional spaces of sacred musical practice and emerging public spaces for popular religious performance; between the transformative experience of ritual and the sacred musical affordances of media technologies; between the charisma of individual performers and the power of the marketplace; and between the making of authenticity and hybridity in religious repertoires and practices. Broad in scope, rich in ethnographic and historical detail, and theoretically ambitious, Resounding Transcendence is an essential contribution to the study of music and religion.

Woza Albert!

Author : Percy Mtwa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350025062
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Woza Albert! written by Percy Mtwa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woza Albert! is one of the most popular and influential plays to have come out of the South African cultural struggle of the 1980s and a central work in the canon of South African theatre. Working with the idea of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ taking place in apartheid South Africa, the playwrights improvised a brilliant two-man show consisting of 26 vignettes, commenting on and satirising life under the apartheid regime. The play has become one of the most anthologized and produced South African plays both in South Africa, and internationally and is studied widely in schools as well as universities. This Student Edition contains a commentary and notes by Temple Hauptfleisch, Emeritus Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. METHUEN DRAMA STUDENT EDITIONS are expertly annotated texts of a wide range of plays from the modern and classic repertoires. A well as the complete text of the play itself, this volume contains: · A contextualised chronology of the play and the playwrights' lives and works · an introductory discussion of the social, political, cultural and economic context in which the play was originally conceived and created · a succinct overview of the creation processes followed and subsequent performance history of the piece · an analysis of, and commentary on, some of the major themes and specific issues addressed by the text · a bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials.

School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ...

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book School-Shakspeare; Or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare ... written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hamlet

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107615488
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive 'Stagecraft', 'Write about it', 'Language in the play', 'Characters' and 'Themes' features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for 'Hamlet' and Shakespeare. Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of 'Hamlet' from around the world.

Shakespeare and Costume

Author : Patricia Lennox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472532503
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Costume written by Patricia Lennox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by new approaches in performance studies, theatre history, research in material culture and dress history, a rich discussion of the many aspects of costume in Shakespearean performance has begun. Shakespeare and Costume furthers this research, bringing together varied and stimulating essays by leading scholars that consider costume from literary, dramatic, design, performative and theatrical perspectives, as well as interviews with renowned theatre practitioners Jane Greenwood and Robert Morgan. The volume amply demonstrates how an analysis of the meaning of costume enriches our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. Beginning with an overview of the stage history of Shakespeare and costume, the volume looks at the historical context of clothing in the plays, considering topics such as royal self-fashioning, festive livery practices, and conceptions of race and gender exhibited in clothing choice, as well as costume in performance. Drawing on documentary evidence in designers' renderings, illustrations in periodicals, paintings, photographs, newspaper reviews and actors' memoirs, the volume also explores costume designs in specific Shakespeare productions from the re-opening of the London theatres in 1660 to the present day.

The Many Lives of Scary Clowns

Author : Ron Riekki
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476644527
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Many Lives of Scary Clowns written by Ron Riekki and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog," or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction's most terrifying creations--like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty--jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.

The Actor's Book of Classical Scenes

Author : Stefan Rudnicki
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Actor's Book of Classical Scenes written by Stefan Rudnicki and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how to apply the techniques of classical theater to modern material with this invaluable companion to The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues. Using 70 scenes from Greek drama, Shakespeare, and the Restoration, Rudnicki offers practical suggestions on preparing the scene for audition or performance. A must-have resource for actors who want to refine their craft.

The Clown Doctor Chronicles

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004433562
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Clown Doctor Chronicles written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in English to provide a close-up view of the emotional and rewarding experiences of clown-doctors working with hospitalized children. It describes the development of a new program in a pediatric hospital and all the challenges that confront clown-doctors. The book recounts work that takes place over a few months in 1999-2000. Most of the children that are described had been diagnosed with leukemia and other serious forms of cancer. They were hospitalized often and ran the risk of death. This book is a tale of love and humor and of dealing with great traumas and tragedy. It tells of the immense compassion and the amazing resilience of individuals in the most stressful and debilitating of circumstances. It is a small window looking onto what it is to be human with all our strengths and frailties and of how complete strangers can become bonded to one another through laughter and pain. The story presented here is based upon real case studies annotated with occasional commentaries to put these experiences into perspective. Above all else this book is a celebration and an homage to all the children, their parents and care-givers who have shared their lives with clown-doctors in many countries around the world. The Clown-Doctor Chronicles is written to 'speak' to people of all ages: men and women; professionals, trades people and homemakers in cities, towns and villages; for laughter and illness know no boundaries. It will be of particular interest to parents, artists in hospitals and anybody working with children (health care professionals, educators, psychologists).