ROBYN HAMBROOK
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  • PROJECTS
    • Sealine Confidential
    • Clown Congress
    • Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy
    • The Trickster Laboratory
    • Sexual Health Circus
    • Street Art Porfolio
    • Rebel Clowns
    • Canary
    • Arthur's Odyssey
    • The Vampire Rabbit
    • Interactive Theatre
    • Youth & Social Circus
    • The Online Clown Academy
  • COURSES
    • Fool Power Residency
    • Clown Soup
    • The Activist Clown Toolkit
    • Clown Devising Weekend
    • The Laboratory of the Un-Beautiful Online
    • Clown Experiments
    • Bouffon Weekend Intensive
  • Training
  • Clowning & Activism Blog
    • Tools of the Activist Clown
ROBYN HAMBROOK

PERFORMANCE

I am passionate about performing and I have performed internationally in a variety of forms including:
Clown * Physical Theatre * Stilt-walking * Street Theatre * Walk about theatre * Cabaret * Fire spinning * Dance * Shadow Puppetry
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Fun in the Oven's physical theatre / clown show; 'Canary'
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'Portrait of an Artist' part of Circonnection European training
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Mother in Pinter's 'Family Voices' with Gappad Theatre
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Ritual Durational Performance at St Mungo's Museum, Glasgow
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Great Uncle Layley's Songbirds - ukulele cabaret act
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Crab for Oceanallover's physical theatre performance, 'The Tide Machine'
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'The Drunken Sailors' stilt street act developed for Let's Circus
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'The Good Wife' - a solo street performance and cabaret act
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A Marchmont Odyssey, for National Theatre of Scotland's '5-minute theatre'
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Walk-about with T-Rex with Millenium FX at the Abu Dhabi Science Festival
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Chorus for 'Erl-King', devised by Robyn for Physical Theatre Scotland showcase
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White Woman for Beltane Fire Festival ritual performance in Edinburgh

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, Bim Mason, Jon Davison, Zuma Puma, Lucy Hopkins and John Wright.
Over the past five years she has been exploring the meeting point of clowning and a deep desire to address the injustices in the world. This specialism has developed through her Masters Research ‘Small Circus Acts of Resistance’, on the streets and in protests with the Bristol Rebel Clowns and in research residencies with The Trickster Laboratory.
Robyn’s Activist Clown research has led to collaborations with Jay Jordan (Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination, France), Clown Me In (Beirut), LM Bogad (US), Hilary Ramsden (Greece) and international Tricksters; ‘The Yes Men’ (US).
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.
Keen to explore the intersection of clowning and politics, Robyn is driven to create collaborative, research spaces, testing and pushing the limits of the artform to create new knowledge and methodologies for her industry and strengthen partnerships for future work. Some of her most recent collaborations and teaching projects have included the Nomadic Rebel Clown Academy (5-day Activist Clown Training), The Laboratory of the Un-beautiful (Feminist Grotesque Bouffon Training for Womxn Theatre Makers) and the Clown Congress (annual gathering of clowns, activists & academics collectively exploring what it means to be a clown in this current era)
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