Wunderbaum (NL):

Magna Plaza 

Dates: 11, 12, 13 October 2008 at 4.30 pm and at 7 pm

Venue: MAMMUT 2 SHOPPING CENTER

Are you ready for love? - A technology-age love story and theater amidst the shopping crowd
A familiar site of our everyday lives is transformed into a stage by young Dutch artists who perform amidst the unsuspecting shoppers and the hustle and bustle of the Mammut shopping center. Magna Plaza takes you by surprise with drama unfolding on the escalator or in front of a shop window.
Wunderbaum's performers - children of Western mass and pop culture - tell stories inspired by the film Dolls by Takeshi Kitano. While Japan conjures up images of unrestrained consumerism, it is also a society where people believe in love where happiness is inevitably connected to excessive personal sacrifice and spirituality. Magna Plaza unfolds around the stark reality of our consumers' society contrasted with the reality or the illusion of our emotions.
As a spectator you eavesdrop on cutting-edge dialogues, mixed with filmic fragments of rock opera and musical which Remco de Jong made especially for this production. You penetrate the characters' thought-process. The shopping center is animated in a way that you had perhaps never thought possible and inevitably, after the performance, shopping and love will never be the same.

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Performed by: Walter Bart, Wine Dierickx, Matijs Jansen, Maartje Remmers, Marleen Scholten
Scenography: Maarten van Otterdijk
Music: Remco de Jong
Dramaturgy: Jeroen Versteele
Co-production: NTGent, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg)

The audience listens to the performers' dialogues through headphones. The performance is in English, with Hungarian simultaneous translation.