Serious Play: Modern Clown Performance

by Louise Peacock

Slapstick comedy is the primary mode of performance for clowns, and in Serious Play, drama scholar Louise Peacock explores the evolution over the past fifty years of this unique brand of physical comedy. Though an analysis of clowning in a range of settings--theaters, circuses, hospitals, refugee camps, and churches--Peacock offers a framework for the evaluation of clowning, and she examines the therapeutic potential of the comedic performance. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841502413
• ISBN13: 9781841502410
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Intellect (UK)
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 8.9"