Around the same time in France, everyone was laughing at Jean-Gaspard Deburau's Pierrot, a clown character with a white face, black eyebrows and red lips — one of the first professional silent ...

Washed-up ping-pong star Don Toberman enters on stage, hyped up and ready to make his comeback after a mental breakdown and ...

Polka-dotted clowns squirting water and fashioning balloon animals became a staple of children’s parties, and the modern clown became associated with childish comedy rather than theatre.