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 would you pass time in the afterlife? When he is given a job controlling the world’s weather, Kiki Lovechild tries to amuse himself throughout eternity by creating new worlds from his imagination. Featuring physical comedy, mime and illusion from the clown who makes it rain from his fingertips. “Nothing verbal can describe the magic […]
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 […]
An evening with the UK’s favourite import from Detroit Michigan singing LIVE songs from jazz, blues, gospel and show tunes. Also expect educational and fun stories about living as a transwoman and relationships with men from her hometown of Detroit. This powerful singer promises you a night filled with fun and laughter. Reviews: ‘Mzz Kimberley […]
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 […]
Join us for an inconceivable, international, imaginary journey inspired by (a thesaurus) and the likes of Monsieurs Grimm and Dahl. An unforgettable, cautionary tale for the wide and tall, for the big and small, for the good and, the bad within you all. Everybody has hidden, dark thoughts and Lecoq trained Benefit of the Doubt […]
Framed as a support group meeting for those who ‘think too much’, a self-confessed analysis junkie dramatically reconstructs a tortuous train of thought, en-route to a mid-life epiphany. Encounters with ‘Non-Sense therapy’ seemingly cure him of his addiction, but lead to a crippling dependency on idiotic behavior. A Provocative, intelligent and entertaining show. ‘Very, very […]
In the shadowy depths of the bar sits a man with immense power and questionable intent. He observes, judges and influences. Smudged Theatre invite you to enter the dark and twisted world of the narrator and watch his manipulation of young love, disrupting the everyday with seduction, passion and deceit. Developed especially for mimetic fest, […]
