MimeLondon

04/08/2026

23/06/2026

GECKO returns in January 2027 with Ķīn, a groundbreaking production that captures the humanity of migration and how we hold, reinvent or erase our identities to survive in a foreign land.

‘We exist both where we’ve come from and where we’re going.’

Ķīn is a story of families fleeing, arriving and beginning again, told through Gecko’s trademark style with hypnotising beauty, a global soundtrack and raw emotion.

Drawing on the lived experiences of Gecko’s Artistic Director Amit Lahav and international ensemble, Ķīn asks what we carry with us, what we leave behind and the cost of becoming someone new.

‘Kin is an enchanting sensory assault that leaves you weeping for the state of the world and with a hunger to make change’ ★★★★★ Theatre & Tonic

‘Unconventional and thrilling… will live long in the memory’
★★★★ The Arts Desk

‘Extraordinary to witness’
★★★★ Broadway Baby

Tickets now sale
https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/gecko-kin/

Sadler’s Wells East
Off Stratford Walk, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London E20 2AR
Wed 20 - Sat 23 Jan 2027
Wed - Sat 19:30
Thu & Sat 14:30

£15 - £45
Age guidance 14+
Runs approx 1 hour 20 minutes without interval

Ķīn is a Gecko production
Commissioned by the National Theatre
Supported by HOME Manchester, Lighthouse Poole & London International Mime Festival
Gecko is supported by Arts Council England, Ipswich Borough Council



photos by Mark Sepple and Malachy Luckie

12/06/2026

THEATRE RE'S INTERNATIONAL HIT, THE NATURE OF FORGETTING, IS COMING TO HACKNEY EMPIRE

Tom is living with young onset dementia. We meet him as he prepares for his 55th birthday party and past memories come flooding back.

Following more than 200 performances worldwide, Theatre Re brings its explosive, powerful and joyous piece about what is left when memory is gone back to London for its landmark 10th Anniversary Season.

Since its 2017 premiere, The Nature of Forgetting has moved audiences from New York to Seoul, São Paulo to Shanghai, and played to sold-out houses across the US, China and beyond; establishing itself as one of the most powerful theatrical experiences of the past decade.

Developed with Neuroscience Professor Kate Jeffery and the Alzheimer’s Society, The Nature of Forgetting is a life-affirming journey into a weakening mind, where fragmented does not have to mean defeated.

As one of the UK’s leading visual theatre companies, Theatre Re combines original live music with striking visual performance to create deeply moving, non-verbal theatre about universal human challenges and the fragility of life.

★★★★★ ‘Incredible’ GQ Magazine
★★★★★ ‘Exquisitely beautiful and punishingly energetic’ The List
★★★★★ ‘Breathtaking and bold’ Broadway World
'Profoundly moving' BBC Radio 4

Thursday 8 October 2026 7.30pm
Hackney Empire
291 Mare Street,
London E8 1EJ

£15 - £32 (plus £1.50 per ticket online, and over the phone)
Age guidance 8+
Runs approx 1 hour 15 minutes, with no interval
The performance will be BSL Interpreted by Anna Kitson.

Tickets: https://www.hackneyempire.co.uk/events/the-nature-of-forgetting

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/4iuoFyzjlnk

Tom is living with young onset dementia. We meet him as he prepares for his 55th birthday party and past memories come flooding back. Following more than 2

15/04/2026

Michael Zandl’s FOOD (Austria/Netherlands)
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
13-17 January 2027

Like a swarm of locusts devouring all in its path, humanity sweeps across the planet.
Everything is up for grabs, everything is edible, everyone wants more.

Michael Zandl’s circus-theatre company invites you to an extraordinary feast where art can literally taste delicious and scenery is there for the eating. Watch as the boundaries between desire and necessity blur, giving rise to something bizarre, surprising, and hypnotic.

Featuring expert object manipulation, acrobatics, illusion and deadpan humour, everyone gets stuffed in this hilarious, wordless circus reflection on contemporary consumerism.

Trained as an agricultural scientist and circus artist, Austrian born Michael Zandl is based in Holland. His previous show Sawdust Symphony was an Edinburgh hit, described by the Guardian as ‘Looney Tunes meets Pina Bausch' and by Broadway World as ‘wonderfully absurd... leaving spectators in awe’. With FOOD the company makes its London debut.

'It‘s quite possible that I’ve already seen the best show of the season"
Wendy Lubberding, Theaterkrant

Tickets are on sale now:
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mimelondon-food/

15/04/2026

Miet Warlop (Belgium)
INHALE DELIRIUM EXHALE
Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sat 23 & Sun 24 Jan 2027
UK Premiere

Art and life blur in this delirious act of creation, destruction, and renewal.

Belgium’s representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale, visual artist Miet Warlop dramatically combines dance-theatre and live art performance in a hypnotic storm of movement, fabric, and sound. Drawing inspiration from the movement of waves as symbols of change and unpredictability Inhale Delirium Exhale reveals the hidden turbulence of the creative process.

Across a stage flooded with some six thousand metres of silk and cashmere, performers wrestle with waves of gorgeously sensuous material that seem to breathe, tremble, and overwhelm. It’s a world charged with static energy, where chaos meets beauty.

Set to a pulsating score by DEEWEE, Inhale Delirium Exhale unveils as a living painting, plunging into a visual universe that is as immersive as it is overwhelming, exploring the delirium that happens between one breath and the next.

“Miet Warlop turns 4 miles of silk into a stunning spectacle” New York Times

“Warlop is not a choreographer, nor a theatre director, nor a painter, but all of these things together” Il Tempo



photos by Reinout Hiel

Tickets are on sale now:
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mimelondon-inhale-delirium-exhale/