Word: clown
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector of model train sets and holiday porcelain villages from mail-order catalogs. Likewise, Bryan Crockett's gigantic balloon explosion could only have been made by a slightly obsessive character, perhaps an eccentric clown bored with his mastery of simple balloon wiener dogs and poodles...
...familiar pop hits at appropriate moments. During the stock horse act, they play a toned down version of "Groovin."' On the other hand, the orchestra sometimes gets a bit carried away with the pop music, at one point subjecting the audience 40 seconds of Grandma, the circus's star clown, dancing the evil "Macarena...
Apart from such bizarre moments, the circus is generally good, but for one awkward--even offensive--episode involving a clown-cum-high-wire artist. Falling into the net after a failed flip, the performer feigned wetting his pants (note the recurring urine theme) and said, inexplicably, "I don't speak English." He then pretended to go hand himself on a nearby rope. Parents in the audience must have been horrified...
...never-big-enough screen as well as the recent spate of mafia movies a la Donnie Bosco left me groping for the key to the mafia's popularity. Is it the films' documentary style? Are the Goodfellas so real they become funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown funny...
...single performer among this excellent cast can be said to steal the show, it is the phenomenal Sarah Burt-Kinderman '97, playing Jacques, the "melancholic" clown. A character who usually lurks in the corners of Shakespeare's text, Jacques has been slightly recast by Zayas into an interestingly post-modern role of the isolated intellectual. His sardonic commentary and constant observations on the rest of the play draw the line between the fantastic and the real, bringing the viewpoint of a modern, cynical viewer into the play. In his battered black suit, derby hat and worn-out umbrella, Burt-Kinderman...