Serious Play

Serious PlayClowns slapstick is their primary mode of performance and allows them to provoke audiences to laughter wherever they perform. This innovative book, focussing on contemporary practice in the USA and Europe over the last 50 years, investigates the nature and function of clown performance in modern society. Through analysis of clowning in a range of settings theatre, the circus, hospitals, refugee camps and churches Peacock establishes a theoretical

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the style of the play is reminiscent of Pinter’s comedy of menace

cultural and political phenomenon with the potential to appeal to a diverse range of audiences

The first comprehensive account of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Ireland

Through its lenses one can perceive the roots of the Crimean crisis of 2014 as well as the path to a more promising future for the two global powers as well as the world

art and human nature unexamined in past treatments

arguing that it is more widespread

The collection shows Gombrich’s concerns to have initiated lines of enquiry that spread beyond Europe and across the globe

One of the more focused areas is shape recognition

the spectacle of popular leisure offered a view of working-class habits

they were among his most popular works

The book distinguishes between moral and material home rulers