• THE GODLINESS OF CLOWN

    The Godliness of Clown (photo of Vesta Tilley) Creativity is central to Human Nature. It does not matter what the art form is the “creative channels” as I call them are the same as the ‘healing channels”. As a small…

  • Some Truths in Researching – REMNANTS: ENCOUNTERS WITH MY CULTURE.

    Weber and Fields I consider a keystone to modern Clown. As you may know or As You (may not) Like It:)… I’m approaching the 5th year of casual coincidental ‘research’ towards my 3rd book “Remnants: Encounters With My Culture”. In…

  • The Structure of QUANTUM THEATRE: SLAPSTICK TO SHAKESPEARE from PhD Thesis

    This blog presents the structure of Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare method. Enclosed is the 8-page Appendix of my PhD Thesis: From the Liminal to the Visceral. The Thesis was completed in February 2009. In April 2008 I thought it…

  • WRITING AND CLOWN – A UNITY

    WRITING AND CLOWN – A UNITY Many of my blog/essays provide video evidence that happens to validate my proposed viewpoints. This blog-essay is about the combination: Writing and Clown. This blog-essay is not a comprehensive approach into that huge combined…

  • Many Great Screen Clowns NEEDED Writers and Directors.

    Many Great Clowns NEEDED Writers and Directors. Many of my blog/essays focus on some video evidence that happens to validate my proposed viewpoints. One of those ideas is that great Clowns needed and worked with Writers and Directors who knew…

  • 2024 Exoneration of Denialism as Defined 2012

    The 2024 Exoneration of Denialism as Defined 2012 Exoneration is a feeling not a fact. Nonetheless the feeling is factual. Denialism itself I defined based on a feeling and not on a scientific survey. In 2012 I called out Denialism…

  • Other Lives

    General Warning: My way of writing meanders. It doesn’t work towards a ‘final conclusion’. I hope to encourage you the reader to engage with yourself during your reading. I hope you enjoy the journey. Regards, Ira Seidenstein. In theory I’m…

  • Theatre As Religion

    Theatre As Religion – essay #31 of 46 – in the book Quantum Theatre: Slapstick to Shakespeare. The book was written in 1996. The manuscript and floppy disk were believed to be lost, but, were found in 2020. The book…

  • 98 YR OLD CLOWNS AND THE QUARTET SECRET

    Rose Marie; Mary Tyler Moore; Morey Amsterdam; Dick Van Dyke the quartet within the cast of The Dick Van Dyke Show 98 YEAR OLD CLOWNS AND THE QUARTET SECRET ACCORDING TO CLOWN SECRET BOOK, ETC Here are a few paragraphs…

  • Learning To Learn: struggle is the DNA of being an artist

    Performer/Artist Michael Moschen in the video here provided tells of his high school friend Penn who became a great and famous magician. Moschen, extraordinary artist and performer tells a few important bits about his amazing career and art and more.…