Today is an experimental day in the Archer Room. The first steps towards circus at Hole in the Wall DerZirke. It will be a ZingSpiel where the story of the circus will be told. And the wealth of poems re clowns etc explored. Whilst the idea is ancient, the circus ring etc as we know it is from mid 18th century London. Circus fits with Hole in the Walls other ZingSpiels such as the Franz Liszt linked Parisian Flying Circus as described in Chez Liszt: Thank you Mr Bianconi; the brass band in So Deep Within the Shadows of the Mine; the theatric clowning entertainment on board Scotts Discovery as described in Explorer: One More Dream of Fortune; the pre-historic role of tribal acrobat entertainers as considered in Seacht Seachtain: Let Ireland Awake to Her Treasures Lost; Dalys Circus featuring his rats in Frongoch from No Forever Bride: Arise in Revolution; Fossetts Circus Big Top hosting events at Listowel re John B Keane - Twenty Said Goodbye: On Beal Strand; Henglers Grand Cirque as mentioned 3 times in Joyces Ulysses - Les Deux Maggots: A tenor in other words; the Day the Clown Cried is a controversial film never shown about a clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp and a circus was put on in the Börgermoor barracks camp in Germany in 1933 - The Gaudy Yellow Rose; von Richthofens Flying Circus during WWI - FIACRE: And St Fiachra Saved Paris; the Cajun circus in SEASOUND: From Pontoon to Ponchartrain; the Cajun circus in I, John FITZGERALD Kennedy: If the story be told and the footage of JFK calling Nixon a circus elephant; Tracys circus act proposal in The Xylophone Man and of course Edith Piafs family link to the circus which she joined via her father who was a contortionist and acrobat. Edith is on video singing Bravo Pour Le Clown. And it being Christmas, Google may have saved Fossetts Circus vis the €300,000 raised through its party at the RDS Funderland - Sinterfest: seen another one. And thats only the start in respect of exploring the circus. Anyone able to do circus acts - juggle etc? Maybe we develop a Clown School? Certainly the idea of a stone clown has begun to gel. Time to get a ladder to the circus ring. It will be bound to find a role for some clowning! Any animal trainers out there? Lions and elephants, horses and ducks to be put through their paces! Real Kilkenny performing cats would be cool. Though not PC these days. There will be music! And maybe reference to the CirCAS! And to its big top. All free! A present for Christmas. Tom Campbell will bring his circus tomorrow and Tuesday 23rd. (€5/8). Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the circus
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 10:39:52 +0000
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