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Scaramouche Jones
A brilliant new one-man show starring Pete Postlethwaite
It's 11pm on Millennium Eve. The ancient clown, Scaramouche Jones, has given his last performance and retires to his dressing room to wait alone for the stroke of midnight - and his own centenary.
Reflecting on the extraordinary fortunes of his life, his journey spans the furthest reaches of crumbling empires and the darkest episodes of the 20th century in his quest for a father and a homeland. He strips away his seven comic masks and reveals the heart buried deep within: his final confession.
By turns bizarre, comic, epic, tragic - and laced with the consummate wit of the circus clown - his tale unfolds as an enchanting fable of poignancy and laughter.
"Powerful, imaginative and marvellously written ? an extraordinary and original creation" - Sir Paul Scofield
It's 11pm on Millennium Eve. The ancient clown, Scaramouche Jones, has given his last performance and retires to his dressing room to wait alone for the stroke of midnight - and his own centenary.
Reflecting on the extraordinary fortunes of his life, his journey spans the furthest reaches of crumbling empires and the darkest episodes of the 20th century in his quest for a father and a homeland. He strips away his seven comic masks and reveals the heart buried deep within: his final confession.
By turns bizarre, comic, epic, tragic - and laced with the consummate wit of the circus clown - his tale unfolds as an enchanting fable of poignancy and laughter.
"Powerful, imaginative and marvellously written ? an extraordinary and original creation" - Sir Paul Scofield
- GenresPlays
48 pages, Paperback
First published April 11, 2002
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September 16, 2021
This is a startling real and magical journey. Best experienced in the theatre, but reading it brought back a flood of memories and feelings from when I first saw it a few years ago
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