Compagnia del Buco

Two clowns wearing a red vest, looking at each other in front of 3 white doors.

"DOORS", Alba (CN), Ph. Loris Sassusolia

A clown inserts a key in the door hole while another clown form the other side of the door checks that it fits in.

"DOORS", Felina (RE), Ph. Ilario Tebaldi

A surprised clown holds another clown wrapped around his waist.

"G.A.S.", Cividale del Friuli (UD), Ph. Luca A. d'Agostino

Two clowns in a little green boat in the middle of a pond compete for a stick.

"WATER", San Bartolomeo, Ph. Andrea Mazzoni

A clown plays an old trumpet while another clown puts a club in the trumpet's hole.

"Out of Time", Reggio Emilia, Ph. Letizia Violi

Welcome!

You ended up on Compagnia del Buco's website. We are a clown and nouveau cirque company based in Reggio Emilia. Since 2017 we look to create shows that carry the audience to a new dimension, working on the absurd that can be found in simple and day-to-day actions, on things' potential and on human stupidity, and ours, with the hope of leaving an image, a feeling, a word. A philosopher and a mathematician that together form a powerful, passionate, and brilliant duo, attentive to culture, aesthetic, and precision. We don't just make shows: we have other passions as well, such as projecting and building scenographies, or developing mobile apps and websites (like this one, for instance!). Anyway, this was meant to be only a short introduction, thus we'll cut it here; on this website you may find more information about us and what we do.

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"Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible."

Charlie Chaplin

"Over the abyss I've stretched my soul in a tightrope and, juggling with words, totter above it."

Vladimir Majakovskij, "Backbone flute"

" 'Imaginary' universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed 'real' one."

G.H. Hardy - A Mathematician's Apology

What they say about us

Two clowns looking inside a plastic tube.

The two neo-twenty-one-year-old clowns Simone Vaccari and Luca Macca are the enfants prodiges protagonists of G.A.S., a post-circus show that uses the banality of reality with lucid irony to transform it into dramaturgical and at the same time playful material. ...read more

Simone and Luca celebrating the winning of the Mirabilia Awards 2023.

The winning Company of the third edition of 🏆ᴍɪʀᴀʙɪʟɪᴀ ᴀᴡᴀʀᴅs🏆 is…drum roll…🥁 Compagnia del Buco with the show “𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀” 🥳 which will thus be scheduled next year at Mirabilia and enters the #InterSpazi project. ...read more

Many people install a door horizontally in front of an audience.

The Circus was also present at Giocateatro with 'Doors' with Luca Macca and Simone Vaccari of the Emilian Compagnia del Buco, who, through their measured boldness, manage through the miserable invisibility of a door to invent worlds that are different every time. ...read more

Two actors kneeling on stage give autographs to a group of children.

The last show participating in the "Porto Sant'Elpidio Città dei Bambini" Award is the show “Doors” by Compagnia Del Buco [...]. Two young performers entertained the audience by also having them intervene on stage in a way that was not taken for granted but by making them become a real character/helper in the story and succeeding in immediately grasping their peculiarities by bringing them back to the audience in an ironic way. ...read more

"Let us strive for the impossible. The great achievements throughout history have been the conquest of what seemed the impossible."

"Over the abyss I've stretched my soul in a tightrope and, juggling with words, totter above it."

" 'Imaginary' universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly constructed 'real' one."

What they say about us

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