[PDF] A Day In The Life Of A Circus Clown eBook

Author : Carol Gaskin
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780816711086

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Follows a circus clown through his day as he practices routines, cares for costumes and props, applies make-up, and entertains the audience.

Author : David Figlioli
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2014-05-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781494310141

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The true story of film and television actor David Figlioli's journey from a hard fought steady career in Hollywood to his life changing decision to run away and join the circus. Attempted human rights violations, drug use, imprisonment, deportation, sex, bureaucratic buffoonery, world travel, cultures clashing, artistic growth and the reality of living the dream are candidly unveiled in the new book, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN." Unapologetically honest and yet filled with the belief in the importance of dreams, "MEMOIRS of a CIRCUS CLOWN" is a unique, first person account of an actor following his dreams of working in television and the subsequent midlife crisis that propelled him to get a job touring and performing as a clown in the circus. Discover the reality of working in Hollywood and an insiders view of what it takes to audition, train, tour and perform for millions of spectators in the modern day circus. Follow the experience of one man's journey of conquering his biggest fears and the ultimate discovering of himself while hidden behind a mask of clown make-up.

Author : Charlotte Chandler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081541143X

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This lusty, high-spirited book was forged from conversations, conducted over the course of fourteen years, between Federico Fellini--the great master director-- and author Charolette Chandler.

Author : Isaac Frederick Marcosson
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"The Autobiography of a Clown" by Isaac Frederick Marcosson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Jeffrey Raz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2022-10
Category :
ISBN : 9780997904840

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Love Death Circus is a love letter to the Bay Area circus community that has been the author's artistic home for over four decades. The novel follows Frank Singer, a veteran clown, through a year of death and dying, first a colleague, then his mother, his best friend and a mentor. As exotic as the characters are on-stage, they face the same scary world as everyone else when illness hits their community. Framed by a series of benefit performances, Love Death Circus takes you deep into an idiosyncratic community of artists with an outrageous sense of adventure reminiscent of Carl Hiaasen or Walter Mosley.

Author : Cathy Day
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 35,97 MB
Release : 2005-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547864566

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Over a half century, a small Indiana town hosts a circus troupe during the off-seasons in linked stories “as graceful as any acrobat’s high-wire act” (San Francisco Chronicle). A Story Prize Finalist From 1884 to 1939, the Great Porter Circus made the unlikely choice to winter in an Indiana town called Lima, a place that feels as classic as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and as wondrous as a first trip to the Big Top. In Lima, an elephant can change the course of a man's life—or the manner of his death. Jennie Dixianna entices men with her dazzling Spin of Death and keeps them in line with secrets locked in a cedar box. The lonely wife of the show’s manager has each room of her house painted like a sideshow banner, indulging her desperate passion for a young painter. And a former clown seeks consolation from his loveless marriage in his post-circus job at Clown Alley Cleaners. In this collection of linked stories spanning decades, Cathy Day follows the circus people into their everyday lives and brings the greatest show on earth to the page. “[An] exquisite story collection.” —The Washington Post “Often funny, always graceful, and rich with a mix of historical and imaginative detail.” —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried “Sublimely imaginative and affecting.” —The Boston Globe

Author : Stewart O'Nan
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,51 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0307482987

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The acclaimed author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of tragedy and heroism—the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. It was a midsummer afternoon, halfway through a Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus performance, when the big top caught fire. The tent had been waterproofed with a mixture of paraffin and gasoline; in seconds it was burning out of control. More than 8,000 people were trapped inside, and the ensuing disaster would eventually take 167 lives. Steward O'Nan brings all his narrative gifts to bear on this gripping account of the great Hartford circus fire of 1944. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, O'Nan skillfully re-creates the horrific events and illuminates the psychological oddities of human behavior under stress: the mad scramble for the exits; the perilous effort to maneuver animals out of danger; the hero who tossed dozens of children to safety before being trampled to death. Brilliantly constructed and exceptionally moving, The Circus Fire is history at its most compelling.

Author : David Carlyon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 113754743X

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2017 Freedley Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association 2016 Best Circus Book of the Year, Stuart Thayer Prize, Circus Historical Society The 1960s American hippie-clown boom fostered many creative impulses, including neo-vaudeville and Ringling's Clown College. However, the origin of that impulse, clowning with a circus, has largely gone unexamined. David Carlyon, through an autoethnographic examination of his own experiences in clowning, offers a close reading of the education of a professional circus clown, woven through an eye-opening, sometimes funny, occasionally poignant look at circus life. Layering critical reflections of personal experience with connections to wider scholarship, Carlyon focuses on the work of clowning while interrogating what clowns actually do, rather than using them as stand-ins for conceptual ideas or as sentimental figures.