Alternative clowns

In this essay, Samo Oleami discusses two performances, Anja Bezlova’s Feed My Ego 2 and Tjaž Juvan’s The Musical Table, both of which he takes as a starting point for a reflection on the dramaturgical role of the clown. As he writes, the function of the clown is not to convey inner emotional states, but rather to have the advantage of being a folk character, which is familiar to the general audience and can therefore lead them to less understandable aspects of the performances.