Paradiscount

Ion Creangă Theatre

13, Amzei Square, Bucharest
Duration 45′

Calendar

Monday 22/09/2008 from 20:00 to 20:45

At the cross-roads between concert and installation, spoken and singed, video surveillance and ”voice off” theatre, Paradiscount is a concert-performance formed by a series of short texts who point the finger, in a playful way, at the countless systems of publicity campaigns (commercials in the gallery stores, web marketing, dedicated press…)
When we buy, we consume, every day, are we really at the origin of our choices/desires? How did our consuming spaces got to be multimedia entertainment parks representing the shopping frenzy and our relation with consuming nowadays?

Created at the Odeon Theater in Paris, the performance inspired by Patrick Bouvet texts cracks the too smooth appearance of merchandising. For that, Collectif MXM uses the same weapons, diverting them wisely.

after Patrick Bouvet
directed by: Cyril Teste
with: Alexandra Castellon
music: Nihil Bordures
video: Mehdi Toutain-Lopez
general direction: Julien Boizard
producer: Collectif MxM
delegate producer: Made in Productions
coproducers: La Ferme du Buisson, Scene Nationale de Marne -La-Vallee / Carre des Jalles (St-Medard-en-Jalles)

About the artists

Collectif MxM was founded in September 2000, with the play Alice Underground at the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Paris. lt is formed by actors, directors, light designers, musicians and video artists. Interdisciplinarity is at the center of our research.