DOORS

clown show

created 2022 - "Winner Show of Mirabilia Awards 2023"

Two clowns wearing a red vest, looking at each other in front of 3 white doors.

2 doors. No walls, no divisions. Doors that open to the future and to the past, or maybe just to the present. Great questions: how does one carry a door? What's behind a closed door? A performance that faces all these matters, among lost keys, magic handles, and absurd rules that will obstruct two clowns during a simple, but not granted, door installation.

DURATION: 50 minutes
DISCIPLINES:

Clown
Objects handling

AUDIENCE: for everyone above 5 years old

A clown holds another clown that has just found a key.

Media:

A clown hanging on a door held by another clown.

Photo credit:

A clown hiding behind a door, on the other side another clown and a gentleman from the audience.

Two clowns with a small door in a stroller.

Two clowns balancing a door on their heads.

A clown miming Munch's 'The Scream' framed with a door frame.

A clown dressed up as a stork and another one holding a baby door.

One clown hanging upside down from another's back.

Many people installing a door laying horizontally on the floor.

Two clowns looking with confusion inside of a croissant.

Two clowns miming the Pietà framed with a door frame.

The show received the following mention at the 'Premio Nazionale di Teatro per ragazzi “Emanuele Luzzati” - 3^ ed. 2024':

"A kind of theatre of the absurd where the protagonists are objects, doors of all sizes that interact with the two actors and sometimes with the audience. All played with Buster Keaton-esque impassivity, and with a subtle humour that never loses sight of the show's rhythm, which is pressing and precise."

WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT MOVIN'UP SPETTACOLO-PERFORMING ARTS 2023/2024
Promoted by MIC Ministero della Cultura - Direzione Generale Spettacolo and GAI together with Regione Puglia - TPP Teatro Pubblico Pugliese and with GA/ER - Associazione Giovani Artisti dell'Emilia Romagna