We’re entering the final week of the last ever London International Mime Festival, which is bowing out with a bang. Dorothy Max Prior reflects on work seen to-date January in London: cold, damp, miserable – same as it ever was. But January 2023 is extra miserable because added to the predictably dismal weather and usual […]
Writings
The Word Made Flesh: LIMF 2023
January 5th, 2023 by Dorothy Max Prior‘Death is always present – it reminds us that we are alive.’ This is the mantra of Belgian theatre company Still Life, who present their Avignon Festival hit show Flesh at the London International Mime Festival 2023 Blackout. Ambient electronic music plays. As the lights slowly go up on the stage, we see what might […]
Jon Beedell RIP: Making Mincemeat of Flimsy Reality
January 4th, 2023 by Edward TaylorOn 12 December 2022 came an announcement: ‘All in the Desperate Men family are incredibly shocked and saddened to announce that Jon Beedell, founder member and co-artistic director, has died. He passed away in his sleep on Saturday night/Sunday morning. We have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of love for him. Irascible, irreverent and irreplaceable, […]
Commedia Dell’arte is Alive and Kicking
October 24th, 2022 by Brendan StapletonBrendan Stapleton charts the influence of Commedia Dell’arte in live and onscreen performance over the past century, and praises a recent documentary about the legendary Joan and Barry Grantham Commedia Dell’arte in its pure form began in Italy midway through the 16th century, and flourished for two hundred years. From there, it provided the impetus […]
Follow My Leader
September 29th, 2022 by Dorothy Max PriorOut There Festival leads the way with a fabulously rich programme of street theatre, circus and cabaret, presented in the streets, parks, beaches, and housing estates of Great Yarmouth It’s Saturday night, the weekend before the autumn equinox, and there’s a bit of a chill in the air here in St George’s Park, Great Yarmouth. […]