A rare, original treat.
It's mime time!
It's all about mime control.
Flamenco reveals its heroic roots bt dispensing with the red dress.
Surreal, edgy dance at Barbican.
People pretending to do stuff so well that it becomes an art form.
Our pick of London's best theatre, comedy and puppetry on offer this week.
Actions speak louder than words
"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?"
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.
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.
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.
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