But at the same time, the speech has all the marks of clowning.
These performances are mimetic representations, of course, but by largely substituting the conventions of popular clowning for those of dramatic impersonation they effectively mock mimesis.
The clowning is not knock-about, coming across as droll rather than slapstick.
They have caught on that clowning doesn't throw off the timing or slow down cruel social machinery.
There was movement and mask work and, clearly, you did a lot of clowning.
Berberian's 'domestic clowning' had been turned upon domesticity itself.
A further forty pages deal with massage, clowning, drama, music, pets and arts and crafts, while in amongst this selection we find one half-page on reminiscence and life review.
It has moved me with the emotions expressed, it has made me laugh with the clowning, it has moved me to rise to my feet and cheer at the curtain.
