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Julia Masli
Julia Masli (born ) is an Estonian-born, London-based clown who garnered wide attention and a number of awards at the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show ''ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.'' Early life Masli was raised in Tallinn, Estonia. Her parents are lawyers. When she was 12, she was sent to a girls' boarding school in England. She did not speak fluent English at the time, leading her to often communicate by miming. Career As a teenager, Masli intended to become a dramatic actor and to perform tragedies on London stages. She auditioned for British drama schools, but failed to get in, which she has attributed to her strong accent. She then trained at the École Philippe Gaulier from 2014 to 2016. After returning to London, Masli has said she struggled to succeed as a clown. She has said that for a time, she stopped performing for 18 months and was so depressed that she could not get out of bed. In 2019, she took a show, ''Legs,'' which featured Masli shaking hands with audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ''maakond'' (county). Tallinn is the main financial, industrial, and cultural centre of Estonia. It is located northwest of the country's second largest city Tartu, however only south of Helsinki, Finland, also west of Saint Petersburg, Russia, north of Riga, Latvia, and east of Stockholm, Sweden. From the 13th century until the first half of the 20th century, Tallinn was known in most of the world by variants of its other historical name Reval. Tallinn received Lübeck city rights in 1248,, however the earliest evidence of human population in the area dates back nearly 5,000 years. The medieval indigenous population of what is now Tallinn and northern Estonia was one of the last " pagan" civilisations in Europe to adopt Christianit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
