The Tony-award winning “Slava’s Snowshow” is being sued by an audience member who claims a clown permanently injured him during an August 2008 performance at the Adrienne Arsht Center in Miami. Mark Misleh says the clown jumped on his chest, causing him to fall to the floor. The clown then allegedly remained on Misleh’s chest, despite repeated requests for him to get off. The plaintiff claims he suffered substantial and permanent injuries to his back and had to be taken to a hospital by paramedics.

 

He seeks damages for hospital expenses, medical and nursing care, and loss of earnings from the show created by Russian-born performance artist Slava Polunin.

-Noel Brinkerhoff

 

Theatergoer Says Clown Attacked Him (by Marimer Matos, Courthouse News Service)

Mark Misleh v. Snow Show USA (Florida Circuit Court, Miami-Dade County) (pdf)