This book discusses the tradition of clowning from an educational perspective, highlighting the resonant philosophies between the two professions and asking wha

2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American h

Richard Pochinko (1946-89) played a pioneering role in North American clown theater through the creation of an original pedagogy synthesizing modern European an

A must-have guide for actors both young and old.

Introduction -- Part 1. Training -- Play and pleasure -- Clown and audience -- The flop and other clown dynamics (and the dynamics of eliciting laughter) -- Epi