Years of a Clown: Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton at Sacred Fools

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What lingers are cinematic tableaux, archival clips of young Keaton standing absolutely unflummoxed as an entire house frame crashes down around him. Not even a twitch of his eyebrow. Or another, where he sits nonchalant on the drive shaft of a steam engine, as it carries him into a train yard.

The comedy of surviving catastrophe unfazed is the essence of such clowning. Flirting with death, then slipping away with a wink. It's easy to understand why Beckett so revered Keaton.

PHOTO BY SHAELA COOK

French Stewart as Buster Keaton

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Sacred Fools Theater

660 N. Heliotrope Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90004

Category: Theaters

Region: Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park

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This is a play about the embodiment of our primal fantasies and fears, the contradiction of being both superhuman and subhuman, discarded and redeemed, mortal and immortal, forgotten and then remembered, maybe with a wink but with barely a smile.

STONEFACE: THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE OF BUSTER KEATON | By Vanessa Claire Stewart | Sacred Fools Theater Company, 660 N. Heliotrope Drive, Hlywd. | Fri.-Sat., 8 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m.; through June 20 | (323) 281-8337