Tag Archives: London International Mime Festival

Zimmermann & de Perrot: Hans Was Heiri ¦ Photo: Mario del Curto

Zimmermann & de Perrot: Hans Was Heiri

January 23rd, 2013 by

We’re all in control of our lives. Right? We are entirely unique. Right? We know who we are and where we’re going. Right? Told using dance, aerial work, live DJ-ing and an incredible central set piece, Hans Was Heiri reminds us that we are tiny little specks on this giant earth, not always in control. […]

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Invisible Thread: Les Hommes Vides

Invisible Thread: Les Hommes Vides

January 21st, 2013 by

The empty men are thick, greyish-white, heavy creatures with googling eyes and lead in their feet, which land heavily on the table-top stage. Their expressions manage to be both gaunt and gormless. They are vaudeville creatures, nearly beheading one another with that old classic, the too-fast-turning plank. They are almost unable to take to their […]

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Blind Summit: The Heads

Blind Summit: The Heads

January 21st, 2013 by

In devised work, it’s the frame that often carries the weight of really communicating a show. In work that’s experimental in form and that draws the audience into its fictions in unconventional ways, it’s the frame that creates and clarifies meaning. Blind Summit’s new production, The Heads – developed from one section of their previous […]

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Simone Riccio: Nothing Moves If I Don’t Push It ¦ Photo: Ben Hoppper

Simone Riccio: Nothing Moves If I Don’t Push It

January 18th, 2013 by

Simone Riccio takes to the stage, dressed head to toe in smart-casual attire, with a peaked cap placed on his head at an enticingly jaunty angle. Then without rhyme or reason, he takes it all off to reveal another suit below. It’s a sign of things to come. He looks out at us for a […]

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Compagnie 111: Plan B ¦ Photo: Agale Bory

Compagnie 111: Plan B

January 18th, 2013 by

Returning in the tenth anniversary year of its creation, Compagnie 111’s second work Plan B hasn’t quite the striking impression of the company’s later works (most notably the arresting and singular Sans Objet seen at the 2011 Mime Festival). What Plan B does, though, is provide an artful introduction to the principles of Compagnie 111’s […]

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