Tag: L.L. McClow

When I taught my first physical comedy workshop more than three decades ago, I called it “theatrical acrobatics,” by which I meant adapting and disguising acrobatic vocabulary in order to make it work believably for a character in a comic situation. Everything had to have cause and effect and look natural, not gymnastic. You could learn a lot from silent film comedy, circus clowning, contact improv, Pilobolus, and stage combat, but precious little of it was written down.