ARM

“2 performers, 400 toys and 60 minutes of surreal and very funny mayhem”

Enter the world of Mireille & Mathieu (is it a junk shop, a car boot sale or a children’s playroom?) for 60 minutes of mayhem where nothing is logical but it all makes sense. A kaleidoscope of belly-laugh moments which include: a doll’s date with a difference that gives ‘passion’ a whole new meaning; punk kids sharing a cot with hilarious and disastrous consequences; and the amazing dancing senorita who swallows an admirer up her skirt…
Totally original, fast and furious and very, very funny.

ARM (meaning poor) is visual theatre, celebrating the imagination. On a flea-market Mireille & Mathieu seem to be fooling around, but the objects they pick up hold stories. These stories, sometimes sweet and full of poetry, but often cruel and comical, follow each other in a playful high tempo style based on a stream of associative imagination that is characteristic of Mireille & Mathieu’s work.

“Both protagonists deliver first class work with infinite enthusiasm and enormous energy…The world, a flea-market, varied and unsorted, tasteless next to tasteful, valuable next to worthless. Simply great.” Emder Zeitung*

“What seems at first to be an ill-assorted collection of trash becomes a wonderful world in the hands of Mireille & Mathieu.” NRC Handelsblad*

“We use every doll and toy you ever dumped, the puppets and objects we play with all come from flea-markets. We try to make a statement about the re-use or recycling of objects in a world where everything is mass-produced to be used only once and be thrown away afterwards. This is the underlying theme of all our performances.”

“Due to this way of creating we were once called ‘the punk of puppet theatre’ by more traditional orientated colleagues - a label we cherish.”