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pointless international

Finally our long awaited and 11 year anniversary: Pointless International. Our brand new show. Guaranteed unnecessary and essential! Never the same and always simply the best. Buster plays Buster, Joey plays Joey, Coco plays Coco, Stan Vreeken is Laurel and if you need Sugar there is Sugar. Let us celebrate together!

4/5/6 June - Amsterdam/Theater De Richel
11/12/13/14 June - Amsterdam/Theater De Richel

Seven opportunities for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Do not miss it, because we will miss you!

pointless international
brings pointless international

Coco, Buster, Joey, Sugar and Stan Vreeken
once again demonstrate their inability to bring any venture to a successful end
in this brand new show
composed out of the 54 scenes
of their repertoire, gathered in 11 years
classical and modern, new and old
the best of the best

in short: With nothing in their pocket but a large certificate of inability and with fresh and sweet reluctance
very unwise and against better judgement

the clowns take the step back into the arena and on stage
of the most beautiful and new theater of Amsterdam: Theater De Richel!

what says the press about 'pointless international'

**** 'what better mirror can you hold to humanity?'
(Sander Janssens, Theaterkrant, 4 Nov. 2017)
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'They are examplelessly good, these four clowns."
(Loek Zonneveld, De Groene Amsterdammer, 30 Nov. 2017)
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**** ' Clowns who come on stage with empty hands and effortlessly create comedy out of thin air.'
(RiRo,12 Oct. 2017)
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**** It's not only to laugh, but also admirable skillful and very clever thought about.
(Karin Veraart, de Volkskrant, 16 juni 2014)
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**** The four of them are grandiose: tragic and laughable, provocative and admirable, chaotic and insane.
(Joukje Akveld, Parool, 16 juni 2014)
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**** It's a hurricane, this sweet war of laughter.
(Loek Zonneveld, Theaterkrant, 14 juni 2014)
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*** Pointless International is largely real clown theater full of virtuoso stunts and hilarious jokes with, admittedly, the occasional literary quotation.
(Sara van der Kooi, Trouw, 16 juni 2014)
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**** a serie of succeeded failures
(Eric Nederkoorn, Dagblad van het Noorden, 4 okt 2014)
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The utility of futility
by Gladys Vantrepotte - Pointless International in Theatre Garonne, Toulouse (France) - 21 december 2015
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June 5 and 6 Theater De Richel Amsterdam
June 11,12,13 and 14 Theater De Richel Amsterdam

Interview with Buster, Sugar, Joey and Coco

by Erik Bindervoet

A chilly December afternoon at the Rembrandtsquare in misty moody Amsterdam, The darkest time of year, the darkest of times in dark times. Sooty ice slush piling up around the skating rink. Wafts of weed and oliebollen compete with the freezing breath plumes of two decently and warmly hatted clowns waiting in front of a sliding fence closing off the entry to the place where we were supposed to meet each other and the Others : fellow countrymen, actresses, colleagues, cooks, stray dogs, cool cats, eaters, drinkers, floaters, clinkers, humanoids and other exiles from galaxies beyond our knowledge. But always ourselves, echoing through the ages.

Oh, no! The doors are closed, I venture, to break the ice, in my best Internationalian, the langue prefere in clowning circles.
The doors are always closed for clowns, pour nous, poor we..., mutters Sugar under his visible breath, thoughtfully, as always, but unusually talkative for a silent clown, whose act mainly consists of being present. Of being. Being here.