The famous circus of clowns is back in town! With Coco, Joey and Buster, and stagehand Sugar and Laurel on guitar; once again they demonstrate their inability to bring any venture to a successful end. They fail, they fall and fail and fall again. Better again. Pointless International celebrates its eleventh anniversary with every evening a new selection out of the repertoire of more than 50 acts and jokes and scenes and gigs and trics and songs these clowns have collected in all those years. English spoken; language big problem. Guaranteed unnecessary and essential! Never the same and always simply the best. Based on the stock of 200 years of classical clown scenes;

The broken mirror; The cigar box; Load! Unload!; It’s not my brother, it’s not my sister; The flea; Magic Molotov; The clown in the audience; Der Zirkuskauf; The rabbit; The sleepwalker; Magic coffee; The elevator; The egg in the pocket; The broken plate; Broodbolletjessnijplank; The lion; Thightrope walker; Two cigarettes; The funnel; No playing allowed here; Love song; The carrot; The dog and the sparrow; The piano; XXX; Money matters; Three sisters; The philosophical dog; Der halbe Witz; No witness, no document; The match; The director’s birthday; Masterclass; The elephant; Dass halbes Quartett; Hold your horses; One hand; The demon’s shell; Mop; Hi there; Song; Song backwards; A politieke toespraak; Sugar song; On Broadway; Bord hamer; Shoot the candle; The map; Red or Yellow; Eleven fingers; Poem; Grimm; Trompetten; …

**** It’s not only to laugh, but also admirable skillful and very clever thought about. (de Volkskrant, 2014)

**** The four of them are grandiose: tragic and laughable, provocative and admirable, chaotic and insane. (Parool, 2014)

**** It’s a hurricane, this sweet war of laughter. (Theaterkrant, 2014)

**** ‘what better mirror can you hold to humanity?’ (Theaterkrant, 2017)

‘They are examplelessly good, these four clowns.” (De Groene Amsterdammer, 2017)

*** Pointless International is largely real clown theater full of virtuoso stunts and hilarious jokes with, admittedly, the occasional literary quotation. (Trouw, 2014)

**** a serie of succeeded failures (Dagblad van het Noorden, 2014)

The utility of futility (Toulouse 2015)

De clowns zijn een stelletje bij elkaar geraapte, half-depressieve en gokverslaafde vaudeville-artiesten die met hun krakende vloer, houten decorschotten, gerafelde bolhoeden, zeildoeken aan touwen die soms met donderend geraas neerstorten en wrakke rekwisieten een van de mooiste vrolijk-ontroerende performances neerzetten. (Theaterkrant, 2023)

****De aftandse, treurige en dus prachtige clowns doen avond aan avond vol goede moed een bij voorbaat mislukte poging om aan hun lot te ontsnappen. (Volkskrant, 2024)