For the past thirty years, Fraser Hooper has been honing his clowning skills, creating solo projects, directing shows for street performers, actors and puppeteers, and teaching in circus schools and theatre festivals around the world. He is highly popular in Australia and New Zealand, and has toured the biggest street art, clown and theatre festivals around the world, performing in Europe, Asia, Canada, the United States and more. Following the success of Inside Out and Boxing, he is currently developing Funny Business, a street improv act that transforms into a hilarious and totally committed mime show, with active audience participation.
Without a single word, in a nod to the great silent clowns, with fine dashes of ridicule, a few objects pulled from a trunk and a total and provocative disregard for his own safety, Hooper brings a boxing ring to life in a larger than life parody of the sport. All the slapstick workings are set in motion in the various sketches and situations in this blooper-filled Funny Business. It is irresistibly funny, beautifully written and performed by one of the greatest clowns of his generation.
BIOGRAPHY
> FRASER HOOPER (New Zealand)
After giving up a successful career in men’s fashion thirty years ago, clown Fraser Hooper has travelled the world with his shows, taking audience participation to new heights. In the great tradition of Anglo-Saxon slapstick and the great silent entertainers, he mixes farce, stunts, improvisation, provocation and clowning, with total physical commitment. He is a clown, mime, director and teacher, and has won the Iron Chicken Award at the Bread and Circus World Buskers Festival (New Zealand), Best Act at the Landshut Festival (Germany), and medals at the Festival du Cirque de Saint-Paul-Les-Dax and the Festival International du Cirque du Val d’Oise (France). Between Fiji, the National Theatre London and the Glastonbury Festival in England, he re-wrote the clown module for the BTEC Diploma in Performing Arts, and after Inside Out, Funny Business and Boxing, he is now touring a new show, Country Life.
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Conception réalisation et jeu : Frazer Hooper
