Note: The following review dates from April 2002 and an earlier tour date of this production. Scaramouche Jones was born in the first seconds of the year 1900 and has lived through the whole century.

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The mathematical challenge of Scaramouche Jones is astounding. It took 50 years to make Scaramouche Jones a clown and another 50 to play a clown, but Pete Postlethwaite, the magnanimous English actor ...

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Born on the stroke of midnight as 1899 ticked over into 1900, the clown’s 100th birthday coincides with London’s millennial revelry. In this first scene we get a glimpse of the ambition of Butcher’s ...

Shane Richie is to star in a new digital production of Justin Butcher’s Scaramouche Jones. It will be streamed online from March 26 to April 11 through digital theatre platform Stream.Theatre. The one ...

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Born at midnight on December 31 1899, Scaramouch Jones was a strange, pale, white-skinned “oyster” who popped out of his Gypsy prostitute mother in a fishmongers in Trinidad. Orphaned, exiled and sold ...

Don't miss your once in a decade chance to see Thom Tuck's superb performance in this mesmerising tale of a clown's life. Join him as he is tossed by history across the Caribbean, Africa and Europe.

Never have I sat in a room – theatre or not – and experienced such a command by one person on everyone’s attention. Scaramouche Jones is really a 75 minute monologue, and put that way, sounds fairly ...

It is the eve of the 21st century and Scaramouche Jones prepares to mark his centenary by recounting the story of his strange and eventful life. Audiences were first introduced to Justin Butcher’s ...