Clown Play is a two-day, in-person clown workshop for people with performance experience who want to explore/further explore theatre clown, presented by Fiona Ferrier and Rachel Colles from Dirliebane Theatre Company, and in collaboration with Perth Theatre.
Clown Play is open to artists and workshop facilitators as part of their ongoing professional development and will explore the clown elements of saying yes, connection, presence, playfulness, and improvisation.
The workshops will be led by the Artistic Directors of Dirliebane Theatre Company, Fiona Ferrier and Rachel Colles. They are professional character clowns and have been devising and performing clown theatre with Dirliebane Theatre Company since 2016. They are also Clowndoctors and Elderflowers with Hearts & Minds and were previously Artistic Leads, training a new cohort of clowndoctors in 2023. Fiona and Rachel are passionate about clowning, working in duos and using clown to establish strong connections with audiences.
More about Dirliebane Theatre Company
Dirliebane Theatre Company creates clown theatre performances for children, young people and their families, using character clowning that creates naïve, optimistic, light and fun characters. Since 2016 Dirliebane has toured schools and venues with their clown shows Big, Space, Bounce and The Cinnamon Sisters, researched Virtual Reality theatre for children and young people and created clown films curing Covid. Dirliebane has recently worked in collaboration with Starcatchers on a clown show, Laaaunch!, for babies under 12 months. Dirliebane will be performing The Cinnamon Sisters at Christmas at Perth Theatre.
More about Perth Theatre and Concert Hall
PTCH (Perth Theatre and Concert Hall) is committed to supporting the artist community so are delighted to be working with Dirliebane over the next 12 months, not only to provide development opportunities for local artists, but to further increase engagement for the 0-5 age group and their parents/carers.
Booking
Dirliebane acknowledges the current lack of diversity within clowning in Scotland and particularly welcome applications from performers who identify as being of the global majority, disabled, neurodivergent, or any combination of these. They are happy to facilitate access needs for participants, and encourage applicants to bring them to their attention so that they can support them to the best of their abilities. They can provide a BSL interpreter at the workshop if requested, and will reserve two places for diverse groups.
For more information and/or to request an application form and access requirements form please e-mail fiona@dirliebane.org.uk.
