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Carlo’s Revenge – Project “Commedia Toto”
Carlo’s Revenge – Project “Commedia Toto” in part in memory of my teacher Carlo Mazzone-ClementiI am in Italy, the country of Carlo’s birth. This project “Commedia Toto” owes much to Carlo and is a transference of his energy. Carlo was complex and I understood early that he was like a fire and if you got…
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Ira’s Background with Shakespeare
Ira has a unique and extensive background with Shakespeare and clown. This workshop is beyond the scope of most approaches to Shakespeare clowning. One also needs to recognize that historically certain roles of several main clowns were written for the specific skills and even physical attributes of specific clowns such as Will Kemp(e), RobertArmin, Richard…
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3 Shakespeare Roles in BSC
In the BSC 1992 season I played many minor characters in the three plays – Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Richard III. We were 16 actors (including John Bell and his wife Anna Volska) touring in repertory all three plays. 5 of us also later did a season touring bits of Shakespeare in a schools’…
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Meetings With Remarkable Clowns
In 1979 I chose to leave the USA to see the European traditional one-ring circus clowns. I left for 3 weeks, but, have been gone since 1979. Amongst the clowns I met in the first instance in Europa were Alfred Pauwells and Charlie Rivels. By 1979 however I was just beginning to be discovered as…
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Teaching Is Learning
Teaching is not easy. Every teacher needs to question their self, daily. BKS Iyengar has written a fine book on teaching called “The Tree of Yoga”. A teacher needs to provide an honest history of any subject that they offer. Professionally many practitioners of theatre and performance skills recognized long ago that my method was…
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Reviewing the Reviewers
Prior to becoming a resident then citizen of Australia I worked in an avant-garde world of theatre where, at the time, reviews were largely irrelevant. That was then and now is now. On the few occasions that my shows were reviewed in Helsinki once and Auckland a few times and once I think in San…
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Beyond The Norm in Clown Training
Beyond the Norm in Clown Training by Ira Seidenstein, PhDThis is a brief article on the subject of Clown Training. The point of the article is to open discussion about topics that seem to lack discourse in the field of Clown Training. There are a lot of assumptions. Here I am simply providing a counter-point…
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Snipets. Prelude to Clown Secret book.
This morning I saw a cloud that was to me like a clown’s face. I will attempt over the next 40 days to write a daily blog. Short or long. This celebrates the omen I saw in the cloud or the cloud that I chose to read as if it was an omen. Yesterday my…
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Shakespeare Productions 2012
The Madness of King Lear – a duet Directed by Ira Seidenstein, Dramaturgy – Ira Seidenstein, Collaborative DevisingOpens at Adelaide Fringe March 8. Onward journey fringe festivals Tokyo, NYC, Avignon, Edinburgh, concludes in Sydney September 2012. JUST CLOWNING – actor/clown duet Directed by Ira Seidenstein, Collaborative Devised.This production includes Shakespeare bits taken off their leash.Premiere’s…
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Teachers & Mentors
Photo: I hope these folks still with us will permit this photo here. It is the group I mention below. The theatre group at CCAC – Boyce Campus – Pittsburgh. This is the team for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I’m on the top step with a head full of black hair. Tony who I mention…