LATEST NEWS & UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

The Activist Clown Toolkit Season 4 announced

I am delighted to announce the 4th season of The Activist Clown Toolkit Co-lab Series. Joining me in my continued research and playful investigation into how to use clowning for political activism is a line up of incredible clowns, artists & activists; The Yes Men, Sayda Trujillo, Bim Mason and Zuma Puma. Together we'll be grappling with big questions like: can we clown with serious issues and is the clown equipped to deal with power and make real change? Find out more and how to book onto this 5-week course here.

Clown Soup will return in 2023

After a fantastic Autumn block of classes with two brilliant guest teachers: Zuma Puma and Igne Barkauskaite we're taking a break for Christmas. BUT we will return in January. Starting from 17 January I have scheduled another block of 6 classes. And once again two clown teachers will guest facilitate. This time Jamie Wood & Dominique Fester. I am so excited. A super cheap early bird rate is available until the 3rd January. Check out all the info here!

In clown-versation with Barnaby King

Barnaby King asked me to join him for a Clown-versation about my activism and clowning work. It was a relaxed and easy conversation and the hour passed really quickly with still more to say. Barnaby has had about 30 conversations with clowns from all over the world, including Holly Stoppit, Eric Davis, Jeff Johnson, Nola Rae, Jon Davison and Angela Decastro. You can check out his Youtube Channel to find them all archived there.

More experiments in Mischief

Read about our latest experiments in the streets of Bristol on the day we went looking for the fascists who never came. Read about our escapades including; chasing police, mass skipping and worshipping a tiny man in my latest blog.
ABOUT ROBYN
Robyn is a Bristol-based director, teacher and performer. With over 20 years experience she is a passionate practitioner of clowning, physical theatre, circus and street arts. She has a MA in Circus Directing, a Diploma of Physical Theatre Practice and trained with a long line of inspiring teachers including Holly Stoppit, Peta Lily, Giovanni Fusetti, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma and Deanna Fleysha.
Robyn has collaborated with companies including Let’s Circus, The Sexual Health Circus and Whispering Wood Folk and performed with acclaimed physical theatre companies including, Derevo, Akhe, Oceanallover, and Gappad as well as her own award-winning company, Fun in the Oven Theatre.
During the pandemic in 2020, Robyn set up The Online Clown Academy with Holly Stoppit and developed a series of Zoom Clown Courses. Robyn’s research, started during her Masters, has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and activism, online, in the real world and with international collaborators. With this drive to explore political edges of her work she has also dived back into the world of the Bouffon; training with Jaime Mears, Bim Mason, Nathaniel Justiniano, Eric Davis, Tim Licata, Al Seed and the grand master Bouffon-himself; Philippe Gaulier. She has also set up the Laboratory of the Un-beautiful; a collaboration with Deborah Antoinette Bard, exploring the bouffon & grotesque with womxn theatre makers.