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In this short interview, theatre director and playwright Romeo Castellucci shares his own take on comedy. Drawing on his previous work on Aeschylus’ Oresteia—which he conceived of as an “organic comedy”—Castellucci explains what in his view constitutes the differentia specifica of comicality in respect to other manifestations of humor and laughter.
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Castellucci refers here to the classical Western circus tradition where two main clown characters appear: the white clown (clown blanc), judicious and melancholic, wearing a white outfit, and the foolish Auguste, the “red” clumsy clown, wearing enormous shoes and outlandish colorful clothing.
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Mascat, J.M.H. (2019). Of Organic Comedies: Interview with Romeo Castellucci. In: Mascat, J., Moder, G. (eds) The Object of Comedy. Performance Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27742-0_16
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