Ephemeral Architectures, oodles of Noodles, and anarchic magic: Thomas JW Wilson follows the circus caravan at the London International Mime Festival 2015 Returning for its 39th year, London International Mime Festival (LIMF) continues to be one of the UK’s strongest advocates for contemporary circus, programming well-established companies, such as the ever-popular Circus Ronaldo, and the […]

We’re washed about by the sound of a whistling, chilling wind. Darkness lifts to reveal a snowy landscape and a couple of opposing rickety trailer homes gazed over by a huge sky. A hunched female figure in heels steps onto the vast white and hesitantly halts. Blue plastic bags breeze across her path like polythene […]

Meet John. John, we learn, had the sort of childhood that shakes your belief in the inherent goodness of human beings, and challenges the myth of the ‘caring society’ in this rich and supposedly civilised country of ours. John’s early life is one of immense poverty, marred by physical, emotional and sexual abuse. A life […]

On the Barbican Pit stage, a screen, and within it another screen, and within it another, and another, and another… and so (almost) to infinity. We start with what appears to be an animated film – flickering images of tiny travelling people crossing a mountain, a boat tossing on the sea. These animations are actually […]

It’s a bold move to premiere your new show at London International Mime Festival, and one which young international ensemble Theatre Re only partly pull off. Not unlike Theatre Ad Infinitum’s Light, which plays elsewhere in the festival, the focus of their show is on darkness, or more specifically living in blindness, and their ideas […]