Seth Bloom and Christina Gelsone are The Acrobuffos! Global Laughmakers, Street Players, & Knockabout Philosophers

We play, invent, and create in popular forms of theatre: slipping on a mask, gluing on a nose, donning an outrageous costume, a trip and fall here, a laugh there, a sudden moment of tragedy, in some cases theatre that educates, and moment by moment out of seemingly nothing arises a show full of pleasure, surprise, engagement, applause...Our performances are founded in strong theatrical and circus technique and the hard knocks of theatre tried and tested around the globe.

“In the language of the screen comedians four of the main grades of laugh are the titter, the yowl, the belly laugh and the boffo. The titter is just a titter. The yowl is a runaway titter. Anyone who has ever had the pleasure knows all about a belly laugh. The boffo is the laugh that kills."
-James Agee, Life magazine. Sept, 1949

 

 
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