The Education of a Circus Clown - Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

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.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
Release date:	November 2015
First published:	2016
Authors:	David Carlyon
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	219
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-55481-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Other public performances & spectacles > Circus
LSN:	1-137-55481-9
Barcode:	9781137554819

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