The “ClownVentures” show starts with 6 clowns planning a road trip and going on a bus driven by a clown. And exactly as it sounds, it ends up being the most disastrous road trip ever. Disastrous but fun. The Clown Me In team brings a show full of joy, magic, and laughter. Through crowd interaction and silly skits, the clowns find truth and humanity. Simple ethics like love, peace, and respect are shared through the process.
The performance is composed of chorus clown scenes and solo scenes. The chorus invites the audience to play with the absurdity of life and death and the struggles of daily relationships. The solo scenes tackle different subjects and invite audiences to laugh with every move.
One of the clowns defies our expectations by embracing the challenges of balancing on a rope laid on the floor. Another challenges our intelligence and the acceptance of failure by trying to put juggling balls in a bucket.
An umbrella will take a clown in all directions, making us believe the unbelievable, and flying away with it. Throughout the show, the audience will enjoy some hooping, juggling, mime, and magic tricks. The show uses laughter as a common universal language. But few of the skits are specifically tailored to the country where we are performing. In one of the skits where a clown turns the audience into a choir, we choose a local song loved and known by everyone so they can sing along and turn it into the most beautiful jazzy song.
In another skit where another clown plays with the idea of waiting, the illusion of the “right man” and masculinity, we conclude the scene with a wedding which includes everything you would expect to see in a traditional Arabic wedding, except it is more fun.
We end the show by inviting many people on stage and dancing all together.
About
CLOWN ME IN
Clown Me In is a clown company based in Lebanon. It has been spreading laughter, fighting inequality, and healing through the power of art since 2008, both in Lebanon and abroad. Throughout the years, more than 50 clowns have been trained to participate in our annual tours and projects. Our mission is to offer people ways to deal with difficulties through art, laughter, and capacity-building workshops and to reach communities through street performances. We believe that all people, regardless of their background and age, deserve to have access to the healing powers of arts, laughter, and play.
Clown Me In started with
Sabine Choucair.
An award winning humanitarian clown, director and activist. Founder of Clown Me In and the International Institute for Very Very Serious Studies, a performance training program in Lebanon focusing on socially engaged street theatre. Certified in social therapy and performing art from NY and London, with years of international experience combining therapy techniques with clowning and storytelling. Regularly invited to lead workshops, direct plays and give talks.
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Amar Sokhen
Producer – Clown Me In
Tel: 961 78 88 38 77
Email: amar@clownmein.com
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