MC
MC
Exploring the realities of urban Europe
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English/ on request
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Urban Europe is reflected in MC’s plays, the people the company works with and how it associates with its audience. The result is as much visual and physical as it is literary, mixing classical culture with street culture, and old-school theatre with multi-media technology.
MC develops new plays and theatre performances, runs projects in clubs and at schools, and organizes multi-media events combining guest DJ’s, theatrical performances, art exhibits, movies and live music. It has pioneered multi-media technology in theatre productions, produced short films and video-clips and has its own record label for distributing music and video clips linked to their theatre projects. Each project has a core artistic team, which includes guests from different disciplines, depending on the theme: actors, directors, artists, DJ’s, musicians, writers, rappers, painters, computer programmers, designers, young and old.
MC is a new company uniting the scope and ambition of Cosmic theatre, one of the first multicultural companies in Europe, with the street savvy and artistic innovation of Made in da Shade, pioneers in urban theatre. The company is presently building its own theatre in Amsterdam that will open in 2009.
International:
Over the last few years, MC has toured different projects abroad and has been involved in numerous co-productions. Some recent examples include: Push which toured in Suriname in 2006 and 2008 – the great response led to a Surinamese version of the play and educational workshops; and Sleepwalking democracy which was an international coproduction with the Los Angeles Poverty Department, developed and performed in Amsterdam in 2006.
MC has recently set up a project with the Royal Theatre Stratford East from London, that was presented in London and Amsterdam in 2008.
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