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 […]

Amid a stage jam-packed with wooden and mechanical bits and bobs, a grey-haired bearded man rests in the shadows. There’s graceful music, lights are low; a solitary red striped satin upholstered chair, elegant, alone, and magnificent, is lit glowingly. There comes the sound of air, of wind, meandering through the beautiful music; something forboding, trickles, […]

Ostensibly, Wolf Meat follows an all-too-familiar contemporary plot: an overbearing drug lord, a grandson seeking love at the expense of family, a harassed maid plotting the family’s downfall, and an undercover cop looking to take them all down. This, however, is where familiarity ends. The drug lord is an incestuously-motivated grandmother, her grandson, Wolfie, a […]

Everyone here is trapped. Welsh ex-squaddie Zach (David Woods) has retreated to a cardboard box. His wife Carol (Jon Haynes) is trapped out of sight, perhaps in her own box, perhaps upside down, certainly in an unforgiving marriage. Band mate and fellow war veteran Ieuan (Jon Haynes again) is trapped outside by the door-chain and […]