‘Beneath how many layers do we hide our true selves?’ asks Phia Ménard of Company Non Nova. The question posed is explored not through words but through physical action, in one of the most intense, focused, and visceral solo performances you are likely to witness at this year’s London International Mime Festival (or indeed anywhere […]

Geraldine Pilgrim has been creating site-responsive performances and installations since long before Punchdrunk ever donned a mask or dreamthinkspeak first re-cast classic text into architectural form. Yet, for contemporary audiences, it’s hard not to encounter her work through the lenses of those other artists who have popularised the form in recent years. Pilgrim’s work rests […]

The stage is a playground of visual delights. A backdrop of ruched and rumpled cardboard, a folding screen daubed with Picasso-blue squiggles and splurges, a giant metal cylinder that’s an odd cross between a German Wheel and a double-edged tightwire, and a kind of suspended roundabout that doesn’t look like it could hold the four […]

Laughing in the wreckage, standing defiant as the world throws things at you – and the rivalry of men up against it. These are the ideas at the heart of Petit Mal. We start in what seems to be a moody, gloomy garage or basement, the stage so dark that it’s hard to see what’s […]

Following a successful run this time last year, The Good Neighbour returns to take 6 – 11 year olds and their families on an interactive adventure through the beautiful Battersea Arts Centre. We’re ushered into the large Council Chamber as a group of over 100 people, and there meet George Neighbour and his accomplice Monique. […]