Maatschappij Discordia

Pointless International brings Poly-interpretability

Pointless International brings Poly-interpretability
DISCORDIA AND ‘T BARRE LAND

Speciaal : Medley met Stan Vreeken van 10 t/ 14 april in Frascati.

“The clowns are back in town! Coco, Buster, Joey and their lovely stagehand Sugar return to the stage with a NEW collection of jokes, scenes and pantomimes, even funnier than last time.

This new program has the beautiful title ‘POLY-INTERPRETABILITY’, because clowns are a matter of perspective! Prepare yourselves for The Clown in the Audience, for The Broken Mirror, other classical clownscenes like The Funnel and The Match and maybe even for some real animals. Elephants Strictly Forbidden! Language Big Problem! Very Welcome! See You There!”
Pointless International is an English speaking international clown performance presented by theater companies Maatschappij Discordia and ’t Barre Land. Theatre members Matthias de Koning, Jorn Heijdenrijk and Czeslaw de Wijs and Vincent van den Berg have joined forces to combine the best of the stage with the best
of the circus.

Following the clowns’ early 19th-century spread from Paris throughout Europe, Pointless International honors the classic clowns scenes with the same force, originality and intimacy as the original. Characterized by their theatrical and narrative nature, these scenes belong not to any of the clowns exclusively but to a collective repertory that all circus artists have been enriching for more than a hundred years.

Pointless International is a circus without lions, tigers, or bears. It has no trapeze artists, jugglers or acrobats. There are no horses, goats or piglets; Pointless International is a circus of clowns.
Pointless International does not shun careless fun and entertainment, but please be aware: Even clowns can’t be mere temporary shelters, creating a moment of standstill in falling down. In other words, the artistic craftsmanship of the clowns offers more than just superficial amusement. The content is the biggest joke (or with nothing less than clownish irony and referring to our name Pointless International could we add here that the lack of content is our content). To be a clown is an existential trial, or rather: clowns are an existential trial!

Van en met Czeslaw de Wijs, Vincent van den Berg, Matthias de Koning en Jorn Heijdenrijk.
Een coproductie van Maatschappij Discordia en ‘t Barre Land.

foto's Sofie Knijff