Rob Young documents his love-love relationship with Ridiculusmus, who he works with as special projects producer It took me 20 years to find the right company. I took the scenic route. Let me set the scene. Me, short body, big head. I looked like a child’s drawing. A child who couldn’t draw. I grew up […]

Dorothy Max Prior has the pleasure of two intimate performance pieces presented at London International Mime Festival 2016  Two shows for small audience groups, set around tabletops, in rooms squirrelled away in the basements of arts centres. But oh such different shows!     David Espinosa’s Mi Gran Obra works on creating distance; playing with […]

Penny Francis interviews master puppeteer, Frank Soehnle of Figurentheater Tübingen, whose show Wunderkammer comes to the London International Mime Festival 2016 One of the world’s most distinguished creators of puppet theatre, Frank Soehnle, and his productions have added to the lustre surrounding this branch of the performing arts in the twenty-first century. His aesthetic is […]

Dorothy Max Prior speaks to Alexander Vantournhout and Bauke Lievens about the creation of ANECKXANDER: ‘a tragic autobiography of the body’. Is it circus? Is it dance? Is it performance art? Clown, even? ANECKXANDER, which comes to Jacksons Lane 22–24 January as part of the London International Mime Festival 2016, is all and none of […]

An interview with David Espinosa, creator and performer of  Mi Gran Obra Imagine for a moment that you have an unlimited budget and bounteous resources. The largest theatre in the world. A cast of hundreds. Marching bands. Animals. Helicopters. You could make the biggest, the best show ever seen! Spanish artist and theatre-maker David Espinosa […]