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No more clowning around: for vaudeville clown and mime artist Bill Irwin, writing serious plays means reaching into a new bag of tricks.

American Theatre,  October, 2003  by Miller, Stuart

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Aman floats in the air, hovering for a moment, seemingly suspended between two worlds. He is attempting to leap from one to the other ... although he won't, can't completely let go of the first one. The man's home world is largely silent, an intensely physical place where his vocabulary is built on movement and his stories are told with body language and facial impressions. He's in total control there, a wizard who persuades his limbs and muscles to balance, stretch or move in ways we, his audience, never dream of. Yet as he reaches toward this next ...

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