Kevin Brooking
Who?
Before graduating from Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, American born Kevin Brooking worked as a circus clown in Canada, Mexico, USA England and at Germany's Circus Krone. Kevin has trained pigs, swallowed swords, and his talented tongue was featured on BBC television. He is a fouding member of circus - theater company Mummeranddada (England) and was a prize winner at the 1985 Festival Mondial du Cirque de Demain in Paris.
Kevin Brooking - CV
In 1989 he formed Zirk Theatre, an non-profit circus theatre unlimited company. His clown workshop "The Art of Accidents" has been challenging students in universites and circus scools in North America and Europe.
What?
The Show."Comedy Of Accidents" isn't just a one man clown show. With the simplest of objects Kevin Brooking brings an entire universe to life. He uses mime circus skills, magic, and an uncanny connection with the audience to create funny, unforgettable theater. It's a world where chaotic metal tubes play beautiful operetta, savage ducks attack the audience, and almost eal babies hatch from eggs. It's a one-hour concert of life, death, and… carrots.
Comedy of Accidents is known in different countries as Inside Out - Sans Dessous Dessus - Ondersteboven - Patas Arriba.
Directed by Gordon Wilson.
La Libre
Belgique (Belgium)
Playing a refugee suffering in a freezing storm, the American Kevin
Brooking is more than clo-wn, and illusionist and an acrobat with charisma.
He is a wonderful mime that establishes an easy rapport with his audience.
His overflowing ima-gination barely controls the mutinous and rebeli-ous
objects… His stories are madly tender and abound with the hilarious
and the unexpected.
24 Heures
de Lausanne. (Switerland)
The world of this American artist is a comic battle between himself,
nature and physical objects. The art of this unusual clown is to bring
out with acting, mime and illusion, different situations and characters.
It seems simple but is very powerful…
A Zirk Theatre Production