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As professionals, we have to use filters to decide what things are most appropriate for the audience we entertain, don’t we? Many choices…
Recently, a friend and colleague of mine talked with me about some training presented on entertaining in the hospital venue. We discussed that while many types of performances were presented as possibilities, the individual performer in the unique performance situation they find themselves in, would dictate the actual entertainment and presentation.
Even taking the same or similar prop, but — using it in a different way, with different patter, changes the presentation, making it more geared for the audience — or maybe, not at all. We have to decide. Sometimes we have to decide while in the moment.
I view entertaining in the hospital as performing for ‘children of all ages.’ Of course, entertaining children means realizing their perspective on things obviously differs from a grown-up’s point of view. Even the age of the child radically changes an entertainer’s approach and performance.
However, in entertaining patients in the healthcare setting, I have often found them to be much more receptive to the Wonder and Joy a hospital clown can bring in to their room, no matter what their age may be. That is why I think when we set clown foot in the healthcare setting, we must bring with us the fun and laughter to spread Joy in that space and time.
While there are countless choices of sight gags, props and schticks we can perform, we must first carefully consider the audience. Even if a professional presented a bag of great bits at a training program we attended, it is always up to the conscientious and consummate professional hospital/caring clown or healthcare family entertainer to use filters, in deciding what things are most appropriate for the audience we entertain, one patient – one group, at a time.
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