Derevo: Absolute clowns
ARCHIVE Daily Telegraph, 16 January 2001: Russian clown troupe Derevo have been likened to a cult. Ismene Brown met founder Anton Adassinski
Clowns are supposed to be chubby, grinning, funny, with anarchic hair and big red noses, like Coco. Or they are Chaplin-types, oppressed little city folk mutely combating the vast machines of the working life. They are not generally shaven-headed skinny men and women with beaky noses, starved cheekbones, and a way of life so severely monastic that it would drive you or me stark staring mad.