Whispers is one of those Mime Festival shows that doesn’t quite fit into any category, at once both dance and object animation, it is also neither of these. And, although there is only one performer visible on stage throughout (Nicole Mossoux) she almost certainly isn’t alone. Moreover, though the work originated out of an interest […]

An elaborate construction of scaffolding and timber, an open-fronted house, sits on a high stage in the centre of the performance space. Lights dim, other low-lights glow. The house seems to have a life of its own, flickering and humming. A man – dark tousled hair, black jacket, white shirt – comes in, makes himself […]

What’s the time, Mr Wolf? Oh – it’s that time. Time of the month. Lady time. Time for your little monthly visitor. Dr Carnesky eschews these euphemisms, preferring to explore the metaphor of the snake shedding its skin, to emerge renewed. The mythology of menstruation is her subject, and we are treated to a potted […]

The title feels familiar – there’s a song about that, right? – but in fact it’s a hybrid invention, a twist on the Pat-a-Cake nursery rhyme that features a host of familiar but reinvented characters from other ditties. This is very much the ethos of the production as a whole, whose ingredients are images and […]

Donald Hutera talks to Michèle Anne De Mey and Gregory Grosjean about Kiss & Cry, which comes to the London International Mime Festival 2017 ‘When the magician shows you the trick, maybe the trick starts to be more magical.’ Now to be honest, I didn’t hear these words issuing from the lips of Jaco Van […]