The children will do acrobatics, juggling, ride unicycles, walk on stilts and perform as clowns, The Humming Mosquito.

Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.

[These shows help children to deal with the trauma of war and the resulting psychological stress.] When our oldest performers play in rural areas, there is sometimes a mullah or former Taliban sitting in the audience, ... At first, they sit there unsmiling with crossed arms, but, the longer the program goes on, the more the stern faces relax, and at the end they even join in the laughter and applause.

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

The artist, like the idiot, or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.