We worked in groups today: Clumps of different Bouffons. "A chorus is always good." And Philippe offered different things to mock. We would start as a group, with a little laugh together, and then one by one we would come out and perform alone...but "if you feel you are boring you have to change." And if you flop - rush back to your fellow bouffons and laugh.
"You can have a good time after a flop because the people of God don't like what we do."
I was in a group who parodied 'ass-lickers', 'kiss-assers', 'suck-ups.' We had fun to do a wanky laugh, as if at a party, but Philippe said "we need to see a beautiful actor...not just hahaha."
Sophia did a great imitation of an intellectual wanker. Taking the piss out of deep theories, and lecturers. We also imitated choir boys, actors, singers and music teachers.
What we are going for in Bouffon is an "imitation with your opinion about the person."
"[Bouffons] know something we don't know...they're clever." They have tactics. They trick us into believing them, and then they laugh. With Bouffon, we don't cry...we receive a big shock. But it's not sentimental. We go home and think about it. But we don't cry.
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I was generally pretty bad today. But I'm not fussed. My costume was rubbish (just in drama-school blacks filled to make me look fat) which didn't help me at all. But I can also be much more light and sensitive.
"Everybody has to discover when we love him as a Bouffon."
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