the arts  Not Clown  Local Arts Reviews  Reviewed by Wayne Alan
Brenner, Fri., Aug. 20, 2004   Not Clown  The Off Center,
through Aug. 29  Running Time: 1 hr, 30 min  Picture a small car
in the center of a circus ring, clowns exiting the car one by
one. Minutes pass and clowns continue to exit: big ones, small
ones, all uniquely gaudy, physically exaggerated, alive with
riots of color. Minutes pass, and the clowns keep coming. That's
the joke, of course: Too many clowns for that small a car. And
the more clowns that exit, the funnier the joke, the better the
audience's experience.  There's no such car to be seen in
Physical Plant Theater's newest show, although one is alluded to
early on. There's much else that epitomizes clowning, though,
and plenty of it is on display throughout the singular
experience of Not Clown.  Performers Robert Deike, Lee Eddy,
Josh Meyer, Robert Pierson, Mark Stewart, and Rommel Sulit are a
troupe of clowns forced underground when the government's Clown
Act outlaws their activities