MimeLondon

23/01/2025

A few last minute tickets are available for all three performances of Dewey Dell’s The Rite of Spring at the Southbank Centre https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/dewey-dell-the-rite-of-spring/

23/01/2025

A few tickets just released for all three performances of Dewey Dell’s The Rite of Spring at the Purcell Room, Southbank Centre

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/dewey-dell-the-rite-of-spring/

Southbank Centre

Dance and performing arts company Dewey Dell reimagines Stravinsky’s revolutionary work with raw, primal energy, offering a fresh perspective on the timeless score.

22/01/2025

A few extra seats have been released for all performances of Plexus Polaire’s Moby Dick so if you missed out, now’s your chance to grab one! https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/mimelondon-moby-dick

21/01/2025

'Devastating... You’ll be left with a lump in your throat'
The Stage ****

‘A strange and surprisingly powerful piece of theatre’
The Guardian ****

Seats have just been released for all performances of Bru Theatre’s Not A Word at the Barbican Pit this week

For anyone coming to see it, there’s a beautiful poem at the end, in Irish, which makes sense of the show - here is the text in English:

Exile is Not a Word by Peter Woods: a translation

Exile is not a word
It is a sound
The rendering of skin
A fistful of clay on top of a coffin
Exile is not a word
It is shaving against
A photograph not a mirror
Exile is not a word
It is hands joined in supplication
In an empty cathedral
It is writing your own hagiography
It is a continuing atrocity
It is the purgatorial Triumph of memory
over topography
Exile is not a word
Exile is not a word
© Peter Woods

https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2025/event/mimelondon-not-a-word

21/01/2025

Seats have just been released for all performances of Bru Theatre’s Not A Word at the Barbican Pit this week

Mask, music and movement combine in this new piece of physical theatre about the forgotten Irish navvies who worked hard, faltered and slowly faded from memory.

21/01/2025

EXTRA MATINÉE PERFORMANCE OF GANDINI JUGGLING’s Heka added on Saturday 1st February at The Place 17 Duke's Road, London WC1H 9PY https://theplace.org.uk/book/instance/745036 photo by Camilla Greenwell

17/01/2025

A few people have asked us how MimeLondon is different to the London International Mime Festival. This article by Natasha Tripney, published in 2024, explains it well.

A look back at a festival which has been bringing some of the world's best visual theatre to London for the past 47 years.

15/01/2025

'Something of a spiritual successor to The Tiger Lillies’ Olivier-winning Shockheaded Peter, this slice of rural gothic horror is powered by a sly symphony of dark cabaret and evocative narrative. At just over an hour, this show directed by Charlier and Romuald Collinet doesn’t outstay its welcome and reminds us (if reminding was needed) of the high bar MimeLondon sets for its works.'

What a lovely review and kind words about MimeLondon 🙏

Fusing together puppetry, live music and projections, MimeLondon’s opener La Manékine brings to vivid life one of the more gruesome of the Brothers Grimm’s tales.

14/01/2025

The only show with any tickets remaining (because it's a very big theatre!) is Compagnie Focus & Chaliwaté’s DIMANCHE at Sadlers Wells Peacock Theatre in Holborn (Wed 29 Jan-Sat 1 Feb). Best get booking!

photos by Virginie Meigné & Mihaela Bodlovic

https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/compagnie-focus-and-chaliwate-dimanche/

14/01/2025

Our short, free-to-view, documentary film, THE LAST SHOW, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel.

Closed Captions are available by clicking CC top right of the window, and there's an audio-described version of the film at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw-MTMMH4V8
Please spread the word to anyone you think might need it:

If you’ve been following the festival, performing or teaching in it, or been otherwise involved, or just wondered what the hell we’ve been doing for the last 39 years, this will be something for you. It’s also a nostalgic trip back through the early years of the festival.

Award Winner - BEST DOCUMENTARY - New York Film Awards
Award Winner - BEST PICTURE - New York Film Awards
Award Winner - BEST DOCUMENTARY - Los Angeles Film Awards
Award Winner - BEST DOCUMENTARY - Milton Keynes International Film Festival
Award Winner - BEST DIRECTOR - Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival 2024
Official Selection - DENVER - Docuwest Documentary Film Festival 2024
Official Selection - ART SPIRIT AWARD - Toronto 2024
Official Selection - ROME - Short Film Festival 2024
Official Selection - ROME - Prisma Film Awards 2024
Official Selection - TOKYO - International Short Film Festival
Un Certain Regard - BUDAPEST - Film Festival 2024

Filmed over the course of the final festival in 2023, this is a documentary about the impact and legacy of the London International Mime Festival featuring c...

02/01/2025

Focus & Chaliwate's world-wide hit DIMANCHE comes to
Sadler's Wells' Peacock Theatre
4 performances only
Wed 29 Jan - Sat 1 Feb
"Gorgeously realised” New York Times Critics Pick

Sometime in the near future humanity has failed to adapt to the new ecological reality of climate change. Amidst the chaos, a family attempts to maintain a normal lifestyle and enjoy its traditional Sunday gathering, hilariously turning a blind eye to the mayhem that surrounds them as strong winds and torrential rain rage outside.

Meanwhile, somewhere above the Arctic Circle three travelling wildlife reporters are doing their best to document the apocalypse. With what little equipment they have they seek to film Earth’s last living species: three wild animals on the brink of extinction.

Using lo-fi special effects, puppetry, miniature vehicles and video Dimanche paints a witty and tender portrait of human ingenuity and stubbornness when faced with the uncontrollable forces of nature.

“As a piece of stagecraft, Dimanche is formidably done. It is not only the variety of techniques, ranging from the manipulation of miniature figures to mime and large-scale puppetry (cute polar bear alert). It is also the astonishing speed with which one scene dissolves into the next… The inventiveness is constant”
The Guardian

https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/compagnie-focus-and-chaliwate-dimanche/

02/01/2025

Our 2025 season opens on 14 January - all four Barbican shows, including Moby Dick, are already sold out (watch out for returns!), but hurry to book your seats for DIMANCHE at The Peacock (29 Jan-1 Feb), DEWEY DELL at the Southbank Centre (23 - 25 Jan) and GANDINI JUGGLING at The Place (30 Jan-1 Feb) www.mimelondon.com

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jan/02/puppetry-moby-dick-mimelondon-plexus-polaire-yngvild-aspeli

Yngvild Aspeli, whose staging of the Melville novel forms the centrepiece of this year’s MimeLondon festival, explains the eerie magic of her craft

17/12/2024

Congratulations to Ockham’s Razor for being one of the Guardian’s top shows of 2024 with Tess, which featured in our 2024 season Sadler's Wells Peacock Theatre

14/12/2024

Coming to The Place at the end of January. 3 performances only.

13/12/2024

SHOWS ARE STARTING TO SELL OUT! Don't delay booking your tickets to avoid disappointment... all shows are London if not UK premieres:
BRU THEATRE (Ireland) Not A Word @ Barbican Pit Theatre
DEWEY DELL (Italy) The Rite of Spring @ Southbank Centre's Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
FOCUS & CHALIWATÉ (Belgium) Dimanche @ Sadler's Wells Peacock Theatre
FRAU TRAPP (Switzerland/Spain) Five Lines @ Barbican Pit Theatre
GANDINI JUGGLING (UK) Heka @ The Place
LA PENDUE (France) La Manekine @ Barbican Pit Theatre (returns only)
PLEXUS POLAIRE (France/Norway) Moby Dick @ Barbican Theatre
www.mimelondon.com

09/12/2024

WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 2025
2 of the January courses have now sold out (Gecko and Ockham's Razor), so don't delay booking if you'd like to start the New Year with a creative boost!

THEATRE RE/GUILLAUME PIGÉ Beginnings
Mon 13 - Fri 17 Jan
Shoreditch Town Hall
Drawing on the Corporeal Mime vocabulary and technique, you will learn how to uncover and play with physical details to enhance your performance skills, develop new material, and push the boundaries of what theatre, without a playwright, can do.
https://shoreditchtownhall.com/whats-on/theatre-re-beginnings-5-day-workshop

KOSTA ANDREA SEKULIC Theatre Creation & Human Behaviour
Sat 11 - Sun 12 Jan
Shoreditch Town Hall
You are invited to tune in and open up. Using rhythm and musical parallels such as melody and harmony (horizontal and vertical dimension) you will learn how to play together, observe movements, and create space for your own stories to appear.
https://shoreditchtownhall.com/whats-on/theatre-creation-as-a-powerful-tool-to-study-human-behaviour

NOLA RAE The Articulate Mover
Sat 18 -Sun 19 Jan
Shoreditch Town Hall
Nola’s workshop will concentrate on comic and dramatic clarity, sifting out the extraneous and getting to the visual point. The emphasis will be on rhythm, improvisation, imagination and the golden rules of mime that will enhance everyone’s performance, helping to engage the audience on a deeper and more enjoyable level.
https://shoreditchtownhall.com/whats-on/nolaraethearticulatemover

VAMOS THEATRE Revealing the Mask
Sat 1 - Sun 2 Feb
Shoreditch Town Hall
A workshop for everyone, especially actors, performers and theatre practitioners - a creative, high energy and inspiring session that will give you a thorough introduction to full mask technique.
https://shoreditchtownhall.com/whats-on/vamos-theatre-revealing-the-mask

GAVIN GLOVER Micro Cinema Theatre
Sat 11 - Sun 12 Jan
Little Angel Studio
This very practical workshop will keep the technology simple and get straight into the Art by exploring what we find with a live camera and a projector. By following some simple cinematic principles, a fascinating new type of miniature cinema will be created.
https://www.littleangeltheatre.com/whats-on/micro-cinema-theatre/

06/12/2024

And Finally we have another announcement for ‘The Last Show’ which is part of the official selection for the 13th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival.

The 13th Mumbai Shorts International Film Festival (MSIFF), happening on the 8th December, 2024, celebrates short films, documentaries, and animations from global filmmakers. Founded in 2012, it serves as a platform for networking and showcasing talent while advocating for the short film industry in India 🧡

We are super proud of our co-collaboration with mime_london and its amazing to see this film reaching wider audiences 🌎

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29/11/2024

The brochure for the all the performances and workshops we're supporting in January 2025 is now available to download on this link - come and experience some extraordinary work!
https://mimelondon.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/mimelondon-2025-ebrochure-9.pdf