Table of Contents
Preface Virginia Scott ix
Introduction Christopher Bayes xv
Part 1
The Gift of Your Talent: A Prologue 3
Preparing the Body to Discover the Clown 5
Warming the Muscle 7
The Little Voice of the Body 10
Natural Rhythm 13
Finding Discovery in the Body 16
Kinesthetic Response 19
The Speed of Fun! 21
Empathetic Response 22
Bringing on the Gleeful Pandemonium 28
Part 2
Entering the Comic World 35
The Sweet Spot! 36
Make Sound When You Travel! 38
Smell the Barn 40
Mr. Shotgun 42
Make Us Laugh 45
Adjustments 47
Your Fun Owes You Nothing 53
Discovering a Physical Psychology 55
The Counter-Mask and Socialized Masks 61
Flexing the Emotional Imagination 67
The Exercise of Forgetting 76
Part 3
Discovering the Clown 83
The Red Nose 89
Discovering the World from Above the Little Red Horizon 97
Discovering the Audience 100
The Pleasure of the Show-Off 108
Triumph 116
Disaster 125
Part 4
The Clown 131
Shows 132
Beyond the Clown 135
The Beauty of Chaos: An Afterword 139