THE SIMPLE CLOWN: Workshop

Name: THE SIMPLE CLOWN: Workshop
Start: 2026-10-03T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-03T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Playhouse East

Details

THE SIMPLE CLOWN
Workshop led by SIMON FRASER
“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)

AM session 11.30am - 1.20pm
A chance to play!
Dip your toes into the marvellous and liberating pleasure of clowning, enjoying fallibility, where less is more and failure means success!
Explore how clowns approach the world, what they find in it and what they make of what they find.

PM session. 2.00 - 4.20pm
We go further into the character behind the nose, looking at this remarkable, sometimes cathartic, sometimes unnerving non-verbal performance skill, building on clarity of physical expression and the value of silence - being able to not do!

“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”
“It was amazing… I really loved it. Wearing the red nose? Fantastic!”
“Really great… it really brought something out of me that I didn’t realise was there”
“So much fun… it felt like such a safe space, supportive environment. I really enjoyed it”

- Feedback from previous Simple Clowners

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). Entrance is through the cafe on the corner of Kingsland Road and Dunston Road, close to bus stops (#149 #242 #243). The studio space is on the ground floor. For any other information, drop us an email: info@absolutetheatre.co.uk
www.absolutetheatre.co.uk Absolute Theatre: Registered charity no.1002931

For any other information, drop us an email - info@absolutetheatre.co.uk

www.absolutetheatre.co.uk
AbsoluteTCUK

Absolute Theatre is a registered charity no.1002931

Location

Playhouse East
258 Kingsland Road, London, E8 4DG

The Lineup

SIMON FRASER
is the Creative Director of Absolute Theatre, having been part of the company for over 25 years. Besides performing and making music for theatre productions, he has regularly led impro and clowning workshops for all ages. His fascination for clowning led him to co-create ‘The 4 Clowns of the Apocalypse’, a collaboration between Absolute and Portuguese company Teatro do Montemuro, which toured in the UK, Portugal and other European countries. More recently he has hosted regular sessions with Absolute Clowns at Playhouse East which led to the realisation of a new work, the “clown opera” ‘Pause.’

“For a long time, clowns didn’t do much for me. I wasn’t coulrophobic, just indifferent. Only when I became aware of the potential and pathos of theatre clowning (- thank you ‘Snow Show’!) did I get interested. Besides the opportunity to play, this was a discipline which an actor could find a new dimension to explore without words. Here was a character for whom everything was a source of wonderment and inanimate objects would conspire against.”

What You Need To Know

Age restriction: 16+

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