Let’s go outside! BURN, the platform for moving images by cabaret artists, is all about exploring what performers can do with a camera that they can’t do with only an audience. One of those things is to use the camera itself as a portable audience, and take performance to the streets. We’re talking drag in daylight, realness […]

Throughout the festival Pi The Mime and friends will be taking over our main festival bar to offer you a host of entertainment including walk about circus performance, showcases from the best of the festival, pop up canteen, screenings from BURN and the hostess with the mostess the one and only Welsh diva, the voice […]

How powerful is your imagination, could it save your life? Do you ever think about your childhood imaginary friend? Nothing To See Here follows the intertwining stories of Josie, Rose, Mal and Jon, who have more in common than even they would believe. ‘Nothing to see Here’ is a tender, sincere and moving exposition of […]

Amuse your bouche with a madcap cabaret of short-form work devised by an international company of alumni from the London International School of Performing Arts. Performed for the first time here at Mimetic, this is an opportunity to see work that has come straight out of the renowned Le Coq – physical theatre school. Expect […]

Inspired by EM Forster’s The Machine Stops, emerging physical theatre company, Open Heart Surgery, brings you into a fast-paced world where two actors play twelve characters. Jostling with the vital questions of our time: is war inevitable? Have we lost all hope for humanity? First Draft, a satirical statement against apathy. In a protection unit […]

The Late Night Shop invite you into a world of Silent Film, forgotten visual curiosities, improvised live music, ambient weirdo performance and Pancakes. A Load Crepe will feature a selection of Shops favorite Forgotten Vaudevillean Films accompanied by Dj Slim Chance, and further a Short Feature Film chosen by Rucksack Cinema set to a live […]

Dark clown, drag and dance combine in this joyful fairground ride as six performers don their finest to flirt with big themes and invite you to do the same. Adults playing like children, the evolution of man, Barbara Streisand doing shadow puppetry under a table. Ridiculous, hilarious, baffling and unnerving, On Being Yourself But Better […]

Familia de la Noche return with their five-star, darkly funny sequel to Pinocchio: a rollercoaster ride filled with song, puppetry, physical theatre and clowning. The Greatest Liar in All the World sends the audience careering through the real story behind his infamous origins. But be warned there’s a twist and tear in this raucous cautionary […]

Dive head first into the absurd world of the Russian poet, iconoclast and false moustache wearer Daniil Kharms. Three bouffon-esque characters intent on telling ‘The Old Woman’ story let narrative escape them as comic vignettes, metaphysical ponderings and bouts of senseless violence provide constant distraction. Expressionist silent film meets grotesque slapstick in a world where […]

Following a critically-acclaimed run at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, join burlesque performer, Miss Glory Pearl, in her debut one-woman show; a  no-holds-barred look at the body and our (usually laughable) attitudes towards it. Bridging the gaps between theatre, spoken word and stand up comedy, The Naked Stand Up is a witty, eloquent and heart-felt exploration […]