Paschale Straiton reflects on current times and sees an opportunity to rethink the role of the artist in our communities A few times this past year I’ve experienced a new twist to the psychological condition inherent in being a performer: that strange slippage between being ‘off’ and ‘on’, between the private, domestic me and the public, […]

Celebrating the launch of his newly commissioned short film for London International Mime Festival 2021, Dorothy Max Prior meets performer, choreographer and theatre director Andrew Dawson, an artist whose eclectic career has taken him across the world – and even to the moon and back ‘Our human essence lies not in arrival but in being […]

It’s January, and we know what that means – the London International Mime Festival is back with another wonderful array of ‘image-rich performance for an adventurous and curious audience’. Dorothy Max Prior reflects on the 2021 programme London International Mime Festival is the longest established international theatre festival in the country. Founder and co-director Joseph […]

Dorothy Max Prior chronicles the year that turned out to be – well, different to expected. Part three takes us from September to December 2020 It feels like things are on the up, with theatres and galleries opening up, artists once again meeting in real space to work together – but the news is getting […]

Dorothy Max Prior chronicles the year that turned out to be – well, different to expected. Part two takes us from June to September 2020 Midsummer 2020. There’s hope in the air. Covid-19 case numbers and deaths are falling, lockdowns are easing, life is returning to – well, not normal but a ‘new normal’ (another […]