Cyril Teste / Collectif MxM
The Collectif MxM was created in 2000 out of a desire to open the theatre space by developing a way of acting that is both artificial and lively. Cyril Teste runs it, surrounded by a team including actors, a video artist, a composer, a playwright, a set designer, a cameraman and a lighting technician, whose formation changes according to the presented shows. This group functions according to a horizontal rather than a pyramid scheme, each member being allowed to develop personal projects apart from the collective ones. Since their first show, Alice Underground after Alice in Wonderland, the members of MxM have been questioning the creation process of images, rather than the ready-made image, by exploring the new technologies potential. Never neglecting the texts, they presented, after Lewis Carroll, a work based on Sophocles, Anatomie Ajax, then three plays written by Patrick Bouvet, including Direct/Shot performed in 2004 at the Festival d'Avignon, before going through the work of Falk Richter in Electronic City. In 2007, Cyril Teste also became an author with Romances, [.O] poésie sonore, then Reset, a show premiered in 2010, which is part of a diptych on the theme of childhood of which SUN will be the second part. In a state of permanent research, constantly questioning itself on the representation method, the Collectif MxM proposes a theatre in which text, images, light and sound all play an equal part in the creation.
JFP, May, 2011.