Welcome to the school of laughter! A man in patent leather shoes that are too tight for him. A teacher who celebrates himself as a genius. A pupil who follows his destiny. A ball that rolls through the room - and suddenly everything changes.
"The Clown and Europe" is a fast-paced, poetic and absurdly funny journey through the highs and lows of existence. Clown philosophy meets physical art, circus meets tragedy, power meets powerlessness. The eternal game of control and chaos, laughter and pain is negotiated here with subtle humour and breathtaking physicality. What happens when laughter is regulated? When the free play of the imagination becomes a system of power? When the pupil surpasses the teacher? When the children take over? With great playfulness, acrobatic precision and lots of improvisation, this play takes us into a world in which the clown becomes the ruler and the audience becomes a community of fate.
A spectacle about failure, about the irrepressible will to greatness - and about the laughter that always wins in the end.
