Feast of Fools is an annual immersive clown performance in celebration of Halloween. The performance takes place in a different public space in Philadelphia each year.

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It is free, non-scary, open to all, and aims to create a space where we can reflect on death and laugh at the ridiculousness of mortality.

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For the first two years, I directed and produced the show, which features my former clown students. The project now operates with leadership rotating each year, so that no one has creative ownership over it.

 

I created this project in the spirit of the BareBones Halloween Extravaganza in Minneapolis. For years, I traveled to the Twin Cities each fall to work on that amazing community production. However, after several years, I realized that rather than traveling halfway across the country to help make Halloween magic in another community, I'd rather create something with and for the people where I actually live.

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Feast of Fools has received support from Meow Wolf, the Philadelphia Office of the Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, and the Penn Treaty Special Services District.

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For images of the first year of Feast of Fools (2017) click here.

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All photos by Rachel Wisniewski.