[The Infotainer]

Reddy

I agree that we should be clear who we are ... but it could be that the answer to that question is a hybrid.

The boundaries are now, and actually always have been, blurred. It is possible to be a clown and a magician with varying degrees of both making up the whole.

I believe that anyone can perform something 'magical'. Equally, anyone can clown. By that I mean has the freedom to, the platform to .. then requires the doesire and ability to.

At the risk of creating some flames .... I have always had an aversion to people calling themselves clowns, getting booked as a clown but then NOT doing any clowning.

All they did was dress up like a clown.

I've seen wonderful clowns dressed as 'ordinary' people. Tati, Keaton, Williams are all examples.

But I still hold that any failure within an act should be rehearsed so that there is no danger of it appearing like ineptitude. After all ... as a paid perfromer, it's essential to deliver .... and not merely rely upon natural disasters!

John Gordon
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