Image source, Kelman Greig Kicks / Hearts and Minds
Carmen Pieraccini brings joy to sick formative years as Dr Squeegie
Scottish actor Carmen Pieraccini is easiest-known for laborious-hitting storylines and heartbreaking scenes in Scottish drama River City.
Nonetheless the role she has chanced on most rewarding is now not as Shieldinch’s Kelly-Marie Adams, but as a formative years’s clown.
The 42-three hundred and sixty five days-former affords play therapy for Scotland’s sickest formative years, and has been making formative years smile for the past 12 years.
Paisley-born Carmen is a fleshy-time clowndoctor.
As Dr Squeegie (The Weegie), she dons a colorful yellow doctor’s coat sooner than meeting formative years who need some gentle of their lives.
Carmen performed Kelly-Marie Adams in Scottish drama assortment River City
“It used to be a point in my lifestyles the put I asked myself what did I revel in doing after I used to be at drama school,” she urged BBC Radio Scotland’s Kaye Adams Programme.
“Clowning used to be a form of things. I prison beloved it. I believed it used to be something I would worship to bear more of in my lifestyles. I used to be in River City but I attempting to search out something a bit diversified.”
Carmen went to Barcelona to coach below French grasp clown Philippe Gaulier.
‘No gigantic feet’
Her version of the art work is much less about big sneakers and custard pies – it is more healthful relaxing.
“We prison wear the easy crimson nostril, no originate up, no gigantic feet. We’re a long way eliminated from that. Or now not it is all about being in the second and be prankish in the second.
“The work we bear as clowndoctors with the charity Hearts and Minds is ready connecting to the newborn and bringing the playfulness out from that.
“Or now not it is now not circus clowning with custard pies and juggling. Here’s a selected form. It is fabulous at the same time as you happen to originate the connections and get that joy, it is a long way going to also be very mighty.”
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Dr Squeegie makes a original friend
Sooner than the Covid pandemic Carmen and the opposite 17 clowndoctors visited hospitals, hospices and colleges for formative years with extra toughen wants.
For the duration of lockdown their work went online, but they’re slowly getting wait on to face-to-face encounters.
Carmen said: “We for all time work in a duo, worship Laurel and Hardy – with a excessive location clown and a low location clown. Then you’ve something to play off of.
“That is prison for some formative years who are a bit exquisite. We are in a position to work in the background so they are going to learn about at us from afar sooner than getting more former to us.”
The clowndoctors are referred to command formative years and their aim is to join with the newborn and bring play and relaxing. Every little thing is improvised.
Handiest drugs
Some formative years will most likely be confined to bed, so the clowns will faux they’re being controlled by the newborn’s finger actions.
“In the occasion you get that spark that makes that child actually chortle, it is all about going with that,” said Carmen.
“Our predominant contrivance is to originate other folks chortle and bring joy on legend of laughter actually is the finest drugs.”
Carmen desires to proceed “bringing wait on the joy”. She thinks every person can steal pleasure in taking a learn about at the field with wonder and magic all over again.
She is now not the finest accepted actor to tread the clown path.
Image source, Instagram / David Arquette
David Arquette published he used to be discovering out clowning
A-checklist actor David Arquette published to The USA final week that he used to be coaching to be a clown.
The Yowl actor said he used to be learning the entertainment art work and that he used to be in a “clown duration” of his lifestyles.
The 50-three hundred and sixty five days-former is preparing to work with the US organisation Wholesome Humour which goes into hospitals to entertain other folks going by fascinating times.
Arquette, who has supplied the rights to the legend of Bozo the Clown and plans to originate a movie on the formative years’s persona, said his “clown thing” used to be taking part in the nostril flute.
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Carmen in trot as Dr Squeegie
Carmen could bid him a few tricks, though.
Her persona does silly walks, whistles in “masses of diversified languages” and performs eyebrow dancing.
She said: “Your clown persona is prison your total things that you revel in doing. Then at the same time as you happen to bear it on the bottom optimistically folks revel in it.
There is now not any originate-up, no clarify costumes, so the formative years can join in a classic map.
“A wee crimson nostril, and that’s it,” said Carmen. “Or now not it is a long way the smallest hide on this planet.”
