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 […]
Time has stopped. They wait. And wait … and wait … and wait. They wait, surrounded by nothingness and the empty loneliness of their existence. Occasionally, they catch a glimpse of hopeful change and move beyond their fears. But as quickly as it comes, it goes… The Lonely Room is an enchanting mime duet by […]
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 […]
Jealousy: the fear of losing your loved one. Funny and colourful in childhood, an unstoppable and eventually violent emotion in some adults. Pathos explores the mechanism of passionate love, from the first sight to its very conclusion. Without words, through symbolic images and dreamlike projections while making use of commedia dell’arte, pantomime, grammelot, clownerie and […]
Neil Henry treats the impossible as more of a suggestion than a rule, transporting you to an unforgettable world of the unfeasible and unreasonable – it’s impossibro. Here’s the thing, it’s not just Neil who does the tricks, when this impostificatious mindbender gets to work you will discover that you can do magic. Open your […]
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 […]
Robert Caligari is a nasty piece of work. But today is the day he gets his comeuppance. Today is the day he’s going to die. Kill the Beast present The Boy Who Kicked Pigs – their five star adaptation of Tom Baker’s glorious story. Promising beautiful projections, original music and over eight hats, it’s a […]
A Tragicomedy About Loss They have a car in the garage, a chicken in the pot and a child on the way. But is that enough to make true love stick? Crazy Glue follows the comedic roller coaster of a couple’s romance as they move from the blossoming of first love through to the thornier […]
Marion Deprez is Gorgeous is a one-woman physical comedy show that turns the whole concept of ‘beauty’ on its head. A trained clown, Marion has fun demolishing her fabulous facade, reversing the roles to make you the star and revealing her true nature as a gorgeous, brave performer. Here is an ‘ideal’ woman who makes us […]
