What’s On In London Theatre: 15-21 January
Our pick of London’s best theatre, comedy and puppetry on offer this week.
London International Mime Festival
Review: London International Mime Festival
Actions speak louder than words
Review: The Table @ Soho Theatre
“You’re going to have problems describing this later. It’s just a puppet on a table: no scenery, no costumes, no horses. Was that fun?”
Mime Fest Review: Le Jardin @ Royal Opera House
The annual London International Mime Festival has been going since 1977, and there’s still just about time to catch the tail end of this year’s offering. We’d heartily recommend Le Jardin, which is playing in the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio until Sunday. A playful …
Mime Fest Review: Upswing’s ‘Fallen’ @ Purcell Room, QEH
Upswing’s latest venture is an elegant, powerful portrait of loss, longing and a crisis of identity and a cross-discipline amalgamation of aerialism, animation and dance.
Mime Fest Review: Du Goudron et des Plumes @ Barbican
Marooned on a large platform that swings on chains in a cavernous sea of black space, five silent performers bounce off each other for 75 minutes as they experience the wild emotions of being confined in a small space.
Mime Fest Review: Flesh and Blood & Fish and Fowl @ The Pit, Barbican Centre
American theatre artists Geoff Sobelle and Charlotte Ford bring their hugely entertaining, dark satire on corporate life, office politics and human nature to the Barbican as part of the 2011 London International Mime Festival.
Mime Fest Review: The Mill by Ockham’s Razor
Ockham’s Razor perform The Mill, photography by Nik Mackey The piece begins with wheels moving in shadowy darkness, the human figures powering them barely visible. As the stage is lit, a machine is revealed – a central wheel surrounded by smaller cogs and linked with …
Review: Woyzeck, London International Mime Festival
A Korean company performing their own interpretation of a German Expressionist play to contemporary tango music using only chairs could, on paper, be utterly preposterous. Yet, in the flesh, Woyzeck by The Sadari Movement Laboratory (at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last night) was an incredibly …
Review: Astronomy For Insects, London International Mime Festival
True to the form of mime, there are no words to describe Astronomy For Insects. Russian company BlackSkyWhite’s jaw-dropping performance at the ICA last night proves that mime can be far, far worse than a skinny man in a stripy top trapped in a glass …
London International Mime Festival
It’s easy to laugh at mime – the performers can’t say anything back. But in the case of the London International Mime Festival, they could well leap off the stage on bungee ropes and encase you in a massive block of clay then make you …
