No circus show would be complete without clowns! The two
characters amuse the audience with acts that are simply absurd.
Clown Magic: A clear "miseen abyme": this act is both a show within a show and a parody of
traditional magicians and circus acts. Is it entertainment for the inhabitants of
this strange world? Or, a moment of levity in an otherwise dramatically charged
storyline? Here the clowns drag a spectator into a ramshackle magic routine and makes
him disappear, never quite managing to hide him behind the cheap curtain.
Zeppelin: A choir of angelic voices sings solemnly as the Skywatcher appears with a cloud
in tow. Shining, pulsating, incandescent blue, the cloud is not well. He lays down
the cloud’s rope and walks up to it, tight, like a stairway to... dare we say it?
Then, with a sweet paternal kiss on the forehead, he lets the cloud drift off again.
Whatever can be done? In a scene that harkens back to the beginning of our story,
the cloud’s light is snuffed out. In its place, the cloud coughs up a cacophony of
television sounds, suggesting the generations of pollution that have fouled our air.
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