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The Pickle Clowns: New American Circus Comedy. Edited and with interviews by Joel Schechter. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2001; $25 paper, $50 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Ron Jenkins
Ron Jenkins
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Wesleyan University
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Joel Schechter's new book of oral-history interviews with members of the Pickle Family Circus offers an unparalleled journey into the mind of the clown. Audiences are accustomed to seeing clowns, but they rarely hear them think. The Pickle Clowns places a slapstick stethoscope under the fright wig of comic performers like Bill Irwin and captures the pulse of their thought processes, as they invent gags and re-create the trajectory of their most memorable comic inventions.

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Information
Theatre Survey , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , November 2002 , pp. 279 - 280
Copyright
© 2002 The American Society for Theatre Research, Inc.

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