The Education of a Circus Clown: Mentors, Audiences, Mistakes

by David Carlyon

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349575070
• ISBN13: 9781349575077
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"