Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in clowns. Viggo Venn won Britain's Got Talent, Julia Masli has been acclaimed in Edinburgh, London and New York. And now the master returns for the first time in seven years with his landmark work. Slava Polunin's SnowShow, which I first saw two decades ago, is as poignant, poetic and split-your-trousers funny as ever.
The white-haired, red-nosed Russian plays the lead in a series of stunning set-piece sketches. He does not say a word but he does not need to. A shrug of his shoulders or a shuffle of his feet speaks volumes. Sadness, tragicomedy, despair, joy.
