Russia-Ukraine War
Moscow State Circus: Update #2, July 14, 2023
Roll up, roll up for the baddest show on Earth!
14th July. It’s Bastille Day and maybe the Russian population will take a leaf out of the French history books and rise against their corrupt regime. Or maybe they will take a lesson out of their own more recent history books, even as late as 1991.
I’m not holding my breath. I think that the Moscow State Circus will continue performing for a few months yet. In the meantime, here’s a brief aggregation of circus news that caught my eye in the last couple of days, clowns included.
Clown Acts
All the circus’s clown acts are also wonderful jugglers, being able to keep an infinite number of contradictory and illogical arguments up in the air at any one time. But they have not yet realised that gravity will win.
Peskov, Clown-in-Chief
Peskov’s act is not original — it is scripted by the circus ringmaster and is becoming boring. But he still makes me titter.
