ice&fire – renowned for their use of performance to explore human rights issues and Matthew Schmolle Productions have joined forces with a cast of immigrant performers to make a new show called We Like to Move it Move it.
While Brexit is now ‘done’ it seems we are still not done with the age-old immigration ‘question.’ This all-immigrant variety show, serving up jokes, songs and plenty to chew over asks: ‘What is behind our collective acceptance of immigration control? What does it say about us and what do those who have come to the UK from somewhere else want to say about it?’ There’s something for everyone! (But should there be?)
Created by Olivier award winner Donnacadh O’Briain and playwright Amy Ng. The company of actors are: Jahmila Heath, Tomoko Komura, Gaël Le Cornec and Sergio Maggiolo. We Like to Move it Move it was created in collaboration with Dr Sarah Fine and the Philosophy Department at King’s College London.
Christine Bacon from ice&fire said: ‘As a company, ice&fire have for some time been concerned with the here and now of human rights stories and what can be done to make current systems more fair. With this project, we are trying to take a big step back and interrogate how and why immigration controls are seen as such a common sense and ‘natural’ feature of our world. But with clowns, so it will make you smile.’
Matthew Schmolle said: ‘We are passionate about getting this show out beyond the traditional theatre-world-echo-chamber, getting it in front of the broadest audience possible and seeing what all those people have to say about these over-looked issues which under pin so much of modern discourse around immigration’.