بررسی دلقک شو - پس از 250 سال، رویای آمریکایی در یک شب هرج و مرج منفجر می شود

Clown Show review – after 250 years, the American dream explodes over one anarchic night

King’s theatre, Edinburgh The pranks and pratfalls in Geoff Sobelle’s show mark the US’s 250th anniversary with nihilistic excess They are a forlorn lot, this bunch who shuffle glumly to the front of the stalls. In white face, funeral veils, mismatched jodhpurs and tailcoats, they gaze across the auditorium to the timeless strum of a folk song. They cheer up after the curtain rises and – to audience applause – their…