Tag Archives: London International Mime Festival

Compagnie Philippe Genty: Forget Me Not. Photo Pascal François

Compagnie Philippe Genty: Forget Me Not

January 25th, 2014 by

  Dead or alive? Alive alive-oh! Compagnie Philippe Genty’s work has always had animation – the giving of life – at its heart. Not only in the sense that animation, in all its many and various theatrical meanings, is the form developed in the art, but also that the work has the investigation of animation, […]

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Fet a Mà: Cru

January 23rd, 2014 by

A tall, imposing woman in black heels and bright yellow short shorts slinks across a white stage, dragging a chair behind her, whilst a podgy, bearded man eyes her up as he glugs from a green water bottle. As the lights dim she stands poker-straight, eyes piercing the audience, before letting herself drop towards the […]

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Jakop Ahlbom:Lebensraum. Photo Stephan van Hesteren

Jakop Ahlbom & Alamo Race Track: Lebensraum

January 13th, 2014 by

Home sweet home! The stage is set as a studio apartment – or perhaps as an old-fashioned theatre set. A table and chairs, a wooden chest cum sofa, a pull-down bed, a bookcase, a toilet, two windows, a door. Two identically dressed men (black trousers and waistcoats, white shirts, white faces, slicked back black hair) […]

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Compagnie MPTA/Mathurin Bolze: À Bas Bruit

January 13th, 2014 by

On stage is a large wheel and a low platform with a moving travelator. There is also a thunder-board and a slatted screen, some boxes, some lights. They are there as tools rather than a set; there are lights around the walls, cables, projectors. It is a casual affair. We are given a page of […]

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Compagnie Non Nova: Vortex

January 13th, 2014 by

‘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 […]

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