This atmospheric response to Monteverdi’s opera Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria is the latest UK premiere from prolific Australian circus company Circa. A regular visitor to London’s Barbican, it is Circa’s first visit as part of the London International Mime Festival. The Return sees six acrobats (three men and three women) share the roles of ‘a man trying […]

This calming and charming performance, subtitled A Tragic Autobiography of the Body, showcases Vantournhout, stripped of all clothing, as he progresses through a series of mini-acts adorning himself with objects, skills, and human expression. The collaboration between performer Alexander Vantournhout and dramaturge Bauke Lievens sets out to redefine contemporary circus by exploring the role of […]

Horror is postmodern montage of silly, supernatural, creepy, and outrageously gory tricks that has a packed auditorium squirming, laughing, and jumping as the climactic scenes keep coming one after the other. Three friends come across an abandoned house and enter Little Red Riding Hood style in red capes; we are immediately aware of their vulnerability […]

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 […]