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
Fun in the Oven's physical theatre / clown show; 'Canary'
'Portrait of an Artist' part of Circonnection European training
Mother in Pinter's 'Family Voices' with Gappad Theatre
Ritual Durational Performance at St Mungo's Museum, Glasgow
Great Uncle Layley's Songbirds - ukulele cabaret act
Crab for Oceanallover's physical theatre performance, 'The Tide Machine'
'The Drunken Sailors' stilt street act developed for Let's Circus
'The Good Wife' - a solo street performance and cabaret act
A Marchmont Odyssey, for National Theatre of Scotland's '5-minute theatre'
Walk-about with T-Rex with Millenium FX at the Abu Dhabi Science Festival
Chorus for 'Erl-King', devised by Robyn for Physical Theatre Scotland showcase
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, 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.