Suffolk Artlink is pleased to introduce the Clown Doctors…

Dr. Fillie Fidget

Dr. Fillie Fidget is small and round and loves

her pink star trousers, pink shoes, pink silk

scarves, pink headband and pink stethoscope.

Can you guess Dr. Fidget’s favourite colour?

She has a very loud voice for someone so small

and is also rather famous for being the only

Wiggleologist in the whole world. If asked nicely,

or you bribe her with a slab of chocolate, she might show you her best bottom wiggle which is rather splendid and looks rather like two ferrets fighting in a sack.

Dr. Fidget loves magic and has always been lucky to find someone on the wards who can show her how it’s done. She also enjoys playing her accordion and has promised friends and neighbours she will one day be able to play a tune they recognise.

Dr Christobell Misschief ( sparkleologist )

Dr Christobell Misschief was born into cat walking which has grown into dog running, sometimes round and round in circles on the ward during Clown Round.

Dr Misschief is very good at hiding, she can be found escaping from the mischief she has weaved and at times she has been discovered hiding behind curtains.

Dr Misschief has her clown trolley so full of clown toys she sometimes forgets to get any out at all. As well as specialising in sparkles she’s a firm advocate of B&B’s (balloons and bubbles). Red heart balloons are her favorite along with rainbow bubbles in the light. The rainbow bubbles are used to check if patients are squeaky clean. Dr Misschief will often give children and their families a bubble bath before they leave or on arrival to the ward. Nothing pleases Dr Misschief more than a sparkle in the eyes and a big belly laugh…….. Ho Ho Ho for Christmas from Dr Misschief

Dr Hyacinth Haystack

Dr Hyacinth Haystack is terribly good at finding things (particularly big things) and exceptionally good at losing things (especially little things). She has wanted to be a doctor ever since she was born backwards at the top of a tree, wearing a white coat. Dr Hyacinth Haystack was taught to be a doctor by the rusty tractor that lives with her on the farm.

Some of the farm animals like to join her on her doctor rounds (but don't tell the nurses!), Billy the sheep is very good at burping and Rupert the Cockerel is incredibly good at being him. Dr Hyacinth Haystack's favourite thing is her teeth and she wouldn't dream of eating chocolate without cheese.

Doctor Professor Hadron Klutz

Doctor Professor Hadron Klutz is a Hadron collider - he is incredibly clumsy. It is very

usual for Doctor Klutz’s clumsiness to cause

a commotion on the children’s ward.

He is always thinking of different types of equations it doesn’t matter what type of equations they are, they can be science, maths, animals or food.

Doctor Professor Hadron Klutz’s favourite colour is the contemplation of the absence of colour, he is often described by his colleagues as being away with the atoms.

If you look in the history books you will read that Doctor Klutz discovered alphabet soup in the deepest recess of the cosmos. His special talent is being so sensible that you are stupid and so stupid you are sensible.

Doctor Klutz would very much like to be a brain surgeon one day and is looking forward to his first Hollywood movie.

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Meet the artists behind the red noses!

Filomena Cristallino

Ciao, I’m Filomena Cristallino and as you’ve probably guessed with a name like mine am Italian by birth, but been living in the UK since I was 2 years old.

I’ve always loved the arts, but didn’t get the chance to take my degree until I was in my early 30’s. I loved studying, so went on to take a Diploma in Community Dance with LABAN and then studied Drama Therapy.

Once I’d completed my studies, I was lucky to work as a performer with various touring companies where I enjoyed playing many weird and wonderful characters for a few years until a friend asked me to help out at her school for two weeks and I ended up staying for 5 years!

Being a drama teacher was fun, but I missed performing so once again went back to acting for a while, until quite unexpectedly I was asked to work on a pilot project with children on the autistic spectrum. The project was a great success and I’ve carried on as part of the Allsortz Children on the autistic spectrum team for over 7 years devising workshops in drama, movement, music, art and crafts.

Chris Draude

I am a mother to Leo and Gus and my dog Sapphire Grace Lightning. I have always worked with children and people in the community, from women’s refuges, care homes, young offender centres, schools, pupil referral units, children’s centres, colleges, prisons, running circus skills workshops, young people’s clown troupes, clown workshops, masks, drama and murals. I have been clowning now for over 25 years. I started with a degree in drama and then ran away to the circus at Fool Time in Bristol studying circus skills and performing arts for a year. I am lucky enough to have studied clown with Slava Plonin, Jonathan Kay, John Lee, Frankie Anderson, Gerry Flanagan, Moshe Cohen, Didier Danthois, Rachel Caine and Gaulier. For me it is a life long study. I also have been trained in youth and community work, BSL sign language, reiki and currently metamorphic technique.
Currently I run Chrisalis Clowning and am part of a multi sensory performance group called Greenfingers which produces shows for people with pmld.

I am passionate about taking the arts to people and places that wouldn’t normally experience them.

Long live the red nose and all the light, silliness and stupidity that reigns when the clown works its magic!

Vicki Weitz

I am a live artist living and working in the East of England. I create solo performance and installation work (often using the audience to help me) and I’m also working collaboratively with two other live artists from the region to create a performance based on hopscotching called Three Step Endeavour. Key themes in my practice are simplicity, sharing and joy.

Currently I act with Father Hen Theatre Company and The Mercury Theatre in Colchester as well as running drama and art workshops for children aged from 18 months to 11 years. I also work with Footprints Theatre Company, creating sculptures for their Cycle and Seek performances.

Cosmo Hardy

Cosmo has been working the boards since he was eight realising at a young age being left handed in a right handed world meant one occupation for him. Happy occurrences brought him to clowning.

He has been involved in a range of wonderful shows, theatre productions and television shows. Cosmo is a member of the Fool Hardy Clown Troup and Artistic Director of Fool Hardy Circus.

Cosmo’s world view is dominated by a red nose and shoe polish, he is happy to be laughed at and tell him self 3 jokes a day. Cosmo hopes to continue clowning to a ripe old age. Cosmo is honoured to be a Clown Doctor and have the opportunity to heal through laughter. You gotta laugh!

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