Virginia Scott
TEACHER * DIRECTOR * COACH * COMEDY FIXER
Whether we pursue together Clown, Commedia, Physical Comedy or any other style, we'll start with everything you bring, and make it work!
Clown
back row: Otis Otis, Wally Otis, Lil Francis Creampuff
front row: Virginia, Spongy Possum, Margaret, Zero
The Clown is you.
It's so simple.
​And so hard.
And so fun!
The clown has some fun and gives it away to an audience.
Do that and we'll love you for sure!
Clown. It means a lot of things. I'm not going to tell you which one is right. Who knows! What I do know is exactly what kind of clown I'm talking about and how/why you might play such a creature.
It comes in two parts. The first part is the building and freeing of the muscles of expression (which requires some honesty, particularity, vulnerability and fun!). The second part is the playing in the world of the clown. This world incorporates the innovation made by Pierre Byland in the mid-1900’s to play the clown nose as a mask: the tiniest mask in the world. And because it is such a special mask as this, the performer beneath it is transformed in a very particular way: into a clown. This clown is you, but at your most essential, without all the details of the real world and your identity. It is your connection to what drives you onto the stage to give something hilarious, beautiful, tragic, epic, and incredible to the audience. Once you are there you might have a routine: your super dumb idea of what is the absolute best thing to bring us. You might be bad, but you must hope and try to be good. Then if you are bad, you can cry about it or freak out, and we will love you. You cannot fail. Unless you are so afraid and cynical you plan to fail before you try. Boo. It can be scary to hope and try. And it is ok. You are beautiful. This I know for sure.
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Clown is hard, intoxicating, thrilling and fun! Open yourself up in this way and you will find a vital expressiveness to carry into all performance. Continue splashing around in the world of the clown and you will generate material and learn to create routines that are impossibly funny in their simplicity and deeply connected to your very specific playfulness and fundamental sense of self.​
here are some clowns
Some of them are (or have been) "SomeClowns" a performance group you may have seen in a park or regional theatre or on the internet. Find those SomeClowns here.
SomeClowns Social
And some of 'em are just some clowns I've helped to poke their heads into the world: beautiful, iconic and exquisitely themselves. In any and every space that dares call itself a performance one (no matter how ramshackle) clowns wait backstage for their big chance to come see the audience. Sometimes they’ve been back there a long time! Dreaming big dreams, practicing their folderall, falling in and out of love and out and in again, arguing, weeping, hugging with all their might and/or a bit reluctantly, and trying not to set anything on fire or break too much, "Mr. Burt Wallace, Remember Me? put that down!"
Lil Wet Ladle, Put That Kettle Down, Marvin! & friends
Loner has travelled the world -- from Coney Island to Saint Cloud! from Nashville to Vermont! Loner loves to see an open road stretched out before her two feet and her two feet alone...at least sometimes she thinks this is what she loves the most. Sometimes she thinks two things at once. She knows that she wants to be loved - but not too much or too hard. Loner’s gotta go -- and look, there she goes! Don’t forget to miss her!
Yoyo enjoys the better things in life like running here, there and everywhere........ YoYo loves to dance and fashions herself as a cross between a great dancer and an AMAZINGLY great dancer! She has boiled down her fifty-thousand signature dance moves into four fabulous dance moves-WOW! She won FIRST prize in ALL of the dance contests that she dreamed up in her mind. In her spare time, YoYo enjoys talking to herself about very important things.
jailbreak YeAsTY soousan
thinks that . . . . aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhrrrrrrrrrrgggg!!!!!!!!!
Hope
came from a pretty gray and dusty place. But that doesn’t stop her, because she takes buses and trains. Hope knows lots of stuff like songs, maybe, and some ways to get to Vermont, and that YoYo should really not climb on top of tables when she dances. Hope’s right here, everybody.
Zero
is a genius. He is everywhere. And no where at all. He is a circle that has no beginning and no end and he is the space inside that circle that you can not see, where ancient winds blow in your ear. He is where nothing happens at all and everything happens all the time. Time is Zero. And Zero is time. Nothing ever changes and everything is never the same. Sometimes Zero sings Que Sera, Sera. Sometimes he carries buckets and eats fish sandwiches.
Sven Sven Mount St. Andersson
really, deeply wants you to feel wonderful! Or at least to be ok. (even though Sven knows that, as a rule, it is usually not ok at all). Sven hates that rule.
Videos
Some Clowns in We Are All Aloner: Episode #1
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In Episode #1 of this Some Clowns improvisational series, Loner is missing. Yoyo, Jailbreak Yeasty Soousan, Hope, Zero, and Sven Sven Mount St. Andersson try to conjure Loner every which way they can, until the only thing left to do is go after her... even though it means somehow finding a place called Vermont.
Some Clowns in We Are All Aloner: Episode #2
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Loner is in Vermont. There are pancakes. Yoyo, Zero, Sven Sven Mount Saint Andersson, and Jailbreak Yeasty Soousan are on the road in hot pursuit! Will they find each other?
Some Clowns in We Are All Aloner: Episode #3
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It's the final episode in the Some Clowns, Where Is Loner?, improvisation! Yoyo, Jailbreak Yeasty Sousan, Hope, Zero and Sven Sven Mount Saint Andersson have made it to Vermont. But no Loner. But yes pancakes. Will there be a triumphant reunion with everyone finally together again in the very same room? Oh, I think so.