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“You a clown?”
The guy startled me, mid-gawk. The arena was transformed. What had been bare cement and echoing rafters for Clown College had turned into the frame of a circus for three weeks of rehearsals. Three rings spread across sea-green rubber mats, cables snaked between large blue boxes on wheels, and ropes webbed the air. A small, jeep-like vehicle called a Clark was pulling one of the boxes. The guy, short and bald, with a cockeye, repeated, “You a clown?”
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously.
William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1.2 (Bottom)
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Carlyon, D. (2016). Bowl of Cherries. In: The Education of a Circus Clown. Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137547439_3
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