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The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes de David Carlyon

The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Autor David Carlyon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137554819
ISBN-10: 1137554819
Pagini: 236
Ilustrații: XV, 219 p. 20 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: Come in: Introducing Key Concepts and Avoiding Clichés
1. Romance of the Red Nose: Ringling "Clown College" Experience
2. Bowl of Cherries: Easy Adjustment to Circus Rehearsals
3. The Rubber (Nose) Meets the Road: Hard Adjustment to Rigors of Trouping
4. The Show Business: Finding Performance Truth in Business Necessities
5. Love ' 'em and Leave ' 'em: Making the Work of Clowning Personal
6. The Good Old Days?: The Past Informs the Present, and Isn ' 't Really Past
7. Rodeo Route: Routine Drags, Then Offers Inspiration
8. Spirit of St. Louis: Losing and Finding A Performance Partner
9. Live: Being Alive to Genuine Human Interaction
10. Stop Giggling: Stop Giggling: Using the Immediate Moment to Create Comedy
11. Clown Mask: Fighting Clichés and Enacting Them
12. So Far, So Good: Lessons of the Veterans, A New Veteran ' 's Lessons
Appendix A: 1976 Clown College and 1977 Blue Unit Route Appendix B: A Brief Cultural & Idiosyncratic (Mostly Circus, Mainly American) Clowning History, as a Means of Providing Context for the Preceding Individual & Idiosyncratic (Mostly Circus, Mainly Evolving) Clown ' 's History

Recenzii

“It is published by Palgrave MacMillan, as one in the series of Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History, devoted to the best of theatre/performance scholarship currently accessible, available and free of jargon. … it is full of interesting anecdotes and fun in describing the education of a young clown with the Ringling show in America. … It’s funny, entertaining, and informative.” (Don Stacey, Circus Report, January, 2015)
"David Carlyon ran away from a lucrative legal career to join the circus. His beautifully immersive personal history captures the gritty excitement and deep camaraderie of his first circus season. The Education of a Circus Clown is a terrific and important book that will enrich and enliven our historical understanding of clowning, the circus, and American culture." - Janet M. Davis, American Studies and History, University of Texas at Austin, USA, author of The Circus Age: American Culture and Society Under the American Big Top, and editor of Tiny Kline, Circus Queen and Tinker Bell: The Life of Tiny Kline
"The literature of clowning, like that of other performing arts, is full of anecdote-laden memoirs that shed little if any light on the actual craft of the performer. The Education of A Circus Clown is a rare exception because David Carlyon is both a professional writer and a professional performer who offers us not just a behind-the-scenes look at life in the clown alley of the world's largest circus, but also an honest and at times anguished analysis of the performer's daily struggle to be funny. Entertaining and illuminating." - John Towsen, author of Clowns and the physical comedy blog All Fall Down
"An important history - as all-encompassing as it is personal - and a great look into the mind of a performing artist. If you want to know what real American circus life is like, then this book is for you. If you don't . . . well, then you're missing something wonderful." - Murray Horwitz, Tony Award-winning playwright (Ain't Misbehavin'), creator of NPR's Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me, and a former Ringling clown

Notă biografică

David Carlyon is author of the critically-acclaimed book, Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of. He is Adjunct Professor at Iona College, USA, has worked as an assistant professor at the University of Michigan, Flint, USA, taught at Northwestern University, USA, and was on the Speakers Bureau of the New York Council for the Humanities, USA. He is an ex-Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus clown, produced playwright, director, and Equity actor, studying at London's National Theatre Summer Programme, UK. He graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, served in the US Army, earned his JD from Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and received his PhD from Northwestern University, USA.

Caracteristici

Combines personal memoir, scholarship, and professional experience Highlights the craft of comedy performance with an audience Focuses on the work of a professional circus clown in close interaction with individuals in the audience