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REVIEWS:

; “macabre and intoxicating performance…The Vampire Rabbit gave Newcastle a glimpse at the creativity and purpose of circus in modern times.”
Review of 'The Vampire Rabbit', 2016

“A musical grotesque, they clearly take inspiration from groups such as 1927, Kill the Beast and Les Enfants Terribles, but in their mixing of gruesome comedy, movement and a real political and social message, their work is very promising.” 
Review of 'Canary' Exuent Magazine, 2015

"...exploiting the performers’ familiarity with the space through intensely site-specific devices and structure... the whole piece left me with high expectations for Jukka’s future work."
From a review of ‘pull-over’ by The Skinny, 2009

"darkly evocative story-telling where poetic text is strikingly amplified through orchestrated gesture and ensemble patterning...Robyn Hambrook's take on Angela Carter's The Erl King allowed her chorus of five women to frame her words with well-judged actions" ***Mary Brennan, Herald 2009

"a spectacular 80-minute staging of Harold Pinter's 1981 play Family Voices...exciting, intensely theatrical show" **** Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman 2010
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.

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  • Home
  • PROJECTS
    • Clown Congress
    • The Trickster Laboratory
    • Sexual Health Circus
    • Street Art Porfolio
    • Rebel Clowns
    • Canary
    • Arthur's Odyssey
    • The Vampire Rabbit
    • Interactive Theatre
    • Youth & Social Circus
  • Teaching
    • The Activist Clown Toolkit
    • Clown Experiments
    • Clown Soup
    • Bouffon Weekend Intensive
  • Training
  • Clowning & Activism Blog
    • Tools of the Activist Clown