Join Judith Milligan & Robyn Hambrook for this two-day workshop, exploring if the Tragic Chorus and Clown illuminate one another. Rooted in the teachings and perspectives of Jacques Lecoq, we begin with the chorus: collective, elevated, and communal. We explore its ritualistic language through embodied poetics of elements and materials-shape, weight, balance and off-balance, falling and recovering, the body before psychology. The chorus observes and comments on the action, stands partly outside it, and interprets it for the audience, revealing what the protagonists cannot see.

From there, we introduce the comic figure of the clown. We ask: what happens when the "I" of the clown meets the "we" of the chorus? Is the clown the hero, standing apart from the chorus? Or could there be a chorus of clowns-a collective body that disrupts, reveals, and challenges authority together?

From this foundation, we'll explore how these two forms might be reimagined for a society that has no ritual. Rather than treating Tragic Chorus and Clown as separate techniques, this workshop explores the dialogue between them, asking: what could a clown collective look and feel like? How might the chorus become a space for clowning together, discovering together, and creating meaning through relationship?

Join Judith and Robyn for this practice-bending workshop as we journey between comedy and tragedy, playing at the intersection of two worlds that have more in common than we might expect.

Clown and Tragic Chorus
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 December 2026
10am - 5pm
The Spark Space, 138a Church Road, Bristol, BS5 9HH

£200 - Supporter/ High earner
£185 - Full Price
£170 - Concession (low/no income, student)

EARLYBIRD DEAL:
£160 if you pay before 6 November

"CLOWN AND..." WORKSHOP BUNDLE
Clown and Mask
Clown and Shakespeare
Clown and Tragic Chorus
All 3 workshops - £455 (save £145)