ABSTRACT

Slava Polunin created Snowshow, which won the Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and nominated for the Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. Polunin's theater Licedei created several highly successful shows: Dreamers, Eccentrics in the Attic, From the Life of Insects, Asisyai-revue, and Catastrophe. The members celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the theater with its funeral. They believed Konstantin Stanislavsky, who stated that any theater dies after it has existed for 20 years. I 1989, Polunin organized The Caravan of Peace, in street artists and clowns from around the world on the road for half a year giving street performances in many European cities. Polunin has earned many prestigious awards including The Harold Angel, The Golden Nose, Triumph Lifetime Achievement, and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Entertainment. Polunin was interested in exploring clowning through exploring metaphysics, tragedy; to explore what it is to be a human being.