Word: circusing
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Billed simply as "Baptiste and Victoria," a handsome man and a big-eyed girl in whiteface have been putting on what they call an "Imaginary Circus" on the streets of French provincial towns and in a small Parisian nightclub. Enthusiastic audiences have been unaware how Victoria comes by her wistful clowning; she is the 19-year-old daughter of Charlie Chaplin and his wife, Oona-who is herself the daughter of America's greatest playwright, Eugene O'Neill. The circus she and Actor Jean-Baptiste Thierree, 33, have worked up "is not really for children," he says...
Then, two years with the Ringling Brothers circus. He'd travel around-"like the hippies do now"-starting in New England, then up to Canada, then all the way down to Florida...
...Florida," he said, "and you'd be out of a job. So you'd join up with the minstrel show going north. At least with the circus you'd have a berth-filthy as it was-on a train. With the minstrel show you had to travel in wagons-and they didn't have paved roads at that time." He laughed at the memory. "That was a lot of travelling in those days . . . just like the kids who travel around now. . . . You know, history comes back...
History comes back. . . . Unlike my grandparents, I know nothing of front stoops and Stock Market Crashes and travelling around with a circus. And yet, the gulf does not seem so wide. The time that separates me from them is not oppressive. Is it clutching at straws to believe that some landscape in this universe is not eroding? I hope...
...Jean-Louis Barrault has put together Jarry, a montage of his works, his characters and his life into a circus of the sick. The show is outrageously and necessarily adolescent, relentlessly preoccupied with sex, madness and death, funny and sometimes sharply touching. Barrault at 60 is the man in the mood for Jarry. Two years ago, for letting the students of May 1968 sit in at his state-subsidized Left Bank theater, Barrault was dismissed, as Le Monde has since put it, "like a servant"; even the company's costumes were confiscated. Barrault stormed back...