This show is called “The Martha in a suitcase”. This had to be my first post here because seeing this show I realized that this was what I wanted to do in life. I used to like clowns as a child, but I totally forgot about it while growing up. I considered myself to be too serious for something like that. I am indeed very serious, I studied philosophy; want to find out the answer on the deep questions in life etc. But this appeared to be not at all in contradiction with clown. I remember that I was quite impressed by Martha because she makes up this crazy world with its very own logic, but everything is logical within this self-created system. The rules are completely made up by this artist but she is indeed taking them very seriously. I was living in Vienna as I saw the show and started to search for a clown workshop there. The one I found was taught by the lovely clown couple Verena Vondrak and Hubertus Zorell and is called: “clowns have nothing to laugh about”. That was comforting enough for me to start this big adventure it still is up till today.
The other thing I found so beautiful about the show is that it made me
sometimes feel sad. It was not at all a laughing roller coaster. I like it if a
clown can make you sad and happy again, and again sad etc. This is, to me, more
comforting than something that has to
be nice and funny all the time. And a clown does not have to be. Clowns
show us something about being a human being, at the same time very simple and
very complex, and a lot of other contradictions. That’s, to begin with, what I
love so much about it.
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