It is not simple to give voice to a clown’s work in the hospital. Each attempt is welcome, especially when the artist himself is speaking. Through Fernando Terra this voice becomes magnified. With experience in acting in Brazil, Italy and Portugal, he invites us to enter the mind of a clown through his diary of experiences and reflections. Check with the author himself in the presentation of the book Dr. Clown.
“When I decided to write “Dr. Clown” I was in Rome, where there are numerous groups of hospital clowns. I collaborated with some as a trainer and with others as ‘Dr. Tuffo.’
When in Portugal, I started my career as Dr. Clown. There I noticed some lack of information from the public about this new profession that I had fallen in love with.
There were many preconceptions and doubts.
Out of all of the artistic workings/performances, perhaps it is the only one where this isn’t much pleasure or desire to invite others to come watch us, for obvious reasons.
Only the sick and their relatives had a more complete sense of what our work really is.
The book came as a proposal to bring information to the public – who mostly only have us in their imagination – regarding our training and the way we work.
In Dr. Clown, the first part is composed of the moments of my career from stage artist to hospital room artist. In the second part, the book invites the reader to spend a whole day inside the head of a clown who, together with his colleagues, enters a hospital with the mission of bringing joy to the patients, caregivers, and health professionals who are there.
It is a journey where the train is the imagination, and the stations are emotions and moments that sometimes make us laugh and sometimes make us cry.
It’s all based on the reality that I lived, along with my colleagues in the hospitals of Portugal and Italy.”
You can find and purchase the book here.
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