a little bit about Massive Company, Auckland

I have just joined the NTW Community as in October myself and another Massive Company member, Scotty Cotter will be in Wales on a creative visit with NTW. Massive Company www.massivecompany.co.nz is a theatre company based in Auckland , New Zealand/Aotearoa....I founded the company 20 years ago. It started as a company for emerging artists aged 15-25years....but now it encompasses both emerging  and professional/working artists. All the work we produce is new work...so we either commission writers or devise our productions. We work with NZ  and international writers. Our work encompasses quite a broad spectrum from plays to very physical, non-narrative productions. Lately our work is using both emerging professional artists in the same production. We just produced a new work by UK writer/actor Lennie James called HAVOC IN THE GARDEN. The show was based on stories and experiences from the company on the theme of home and family. The cast was made up of 14 actors with an age span of 18-35 years. All of our work starts with personal stories and experiences. People have described our work as authentic, visceral, gritty, true, full of heart. New Zealand. Many of our company consider Massive as one of their "homes" and we encourage that. Its a company you can always return to and consider as "family". We have company members who started with us at 15 and still are with us at 35.....they do of course go off and work with other companies, television and film....but they have a very definite place at Massive. We also train many of our actors as tutors and assistant directors....Scotty who will come with me to NTW is all of these things within the company. So there is a taste of Massive Company. I will write more about what and who we will be trying to connect with when we are in Wales. If anyone wants to contact me directly please do sam@massivecompany.co.nz

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Comment by samantha jane scott on November 6, 2011 at 23:15

HI..well its monday a week since Scotty and I arrived in Cardiff....it has been a full and rich week. I am incrediably grateful for the week...for driving in the car and hearing Suzie talk about her Wales....Abdul talk about his new Wales.We saw so much countryside and views of Wales...it was quick but still we are lucky enough to have the overview we have of Wales. We have met an enormous amount of people but you know when there is a connection there...sometimes it is just in the eyes, sometimes it is from 10 minutes of chat...but you know the people you will return to have more conversations with...this is exciting. The workshops..so many flavours within the 4 we taught. It was great to know some people were meeting and working together for the first time and from here they will go on to connect and re-connect. Scotty and I will now let everything settle and filter down...we have lots of ideas already of how we could/might come back and be with people....but obviously its a two way thing so we need to see how that oculd be from both "sides". I will write more once there is some settling...for now...thank you to everyone we crossed paths with and for the care that was intrinsic in everything NTW did ...talk soon

 

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