THE SIMPLE CLOWN WORKSHOP
LED BY SIMON FRASER -
A chance to play!
Dip your toes into the marvellous and liberating pleasure of clowning, where less is more and failure means success!
This workshop is entry-level, suitable for anyone with little or no clowning experience. We will be looking at the clown’s approach to the world and objects/props, physicality and the connection to the audience.
“The world of fools… the upside-down world where you must look at things as if for the first time and process them, always through joy.” (Slava Polunin)
“Great creative fun learning clowning in a supportive atmosphere”
“A perfect one off workshop, simple and accessible exercises… Can’t recommend enough”
“Simon is a brilliant teacher who helped me find new approaches to clown… I laughed A LOT too”
“Welcoming, inclusive and fun workshops. Recommended.”
The clown engages with a world full of surprises and bewildering, duplicitous objects. Clowns navigate their universe with joyful interest and sometimes mischief, though not (from the audience’s perspective) in the most obvious, logical way. They are regularly perplexed, but never defeated. The clown is not stupid. The nose is not a mask.
PLAYHOUSE EAST, 258 Kingsland Road, Haggerston E8 4DG is a three-minute walk from Haggerston Overground Station (Windrush line, 3 stops from Whitechapel or Highbury & Islington). It is possible to park for free in the side streets close to the venue on Sundays. Entrance is through the cafe on the corner of Kingsland Road and Dunston Road, close to bus stops (#149 #242 #243). The space is upstairs on the first floor. For any other information, drop us an email: info@absolutetheatre.co.uk
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