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Mime

July 2024

  • Olga Koch, with a suit jacket but no shirt underneath and holding a cigarette, smiles slightly as she touches her sunglasses as a man in a baseball cap swings a golf club behind her in a field

    Edinburgh festival 2024: find the funny with these 20 comedy shows

    A one-woman 90s romcom, boundary-testing standups and a new Taskmaster contestant make our comedy critic’s list of the fringe’s most promising tickets

May 2024

  • Marcello Magni and Simon McBurney in the 2005 revival of A Minute Too Late, which was first performed in 1985.

    The play that changed my life
    The play that changed my life: Complicité’s A Minute Too Late was a matter of life and death

    Our series on transformative theatrical discoveries continues with the moving 1984 show exploring our buttoned-up approach to mortality

March 2024

  • Lon Chaney in He Who Gets Slapped, 1924.

    Shock of the old
    Shock of the old: nine disturbing, disruptive and demonic clowns

    For centuries, they have been subversive speakers of truth to power – and a focus for our fears. Why do clowns provoke such strong emotions?

August 2023

  • Elf and Duffy

    Elf and Duffy: Heist review – harum-scarum comedy havoc

    This part-improvised, largely mimed and entirely chaotic comic play about guinea pigs and bank robbery is ramshackle fun

February 2023

  • Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck in Bill's 44th.

    Bill’s 44th review – tender and boozy puppet party

    A Beckettian sense of dread pervades Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck’s show about a wistful middle-aged man’s attempts to keep the darkness at bay

January 2023

  • Still Life: Flesh.

    Still Life: Flesh review – morsels of mime gesture towards a finer show

    These four vignettes offer flashes of brilliance and smart stagecraft but feel too disconnected to truly hit home
  • The Brides by David Glass Ensemble and Topi Dalmata at Jacksons Lane.©Tristram Kenton 01-23 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    The Brides review – overblown antics from David Glass and co, and for LIMF the end of an era

    Glass’s latest collaboration cites female power but suggests the opposite, and comes as London’s influential mime festival prepares to disperse
  • Sean Gandini and Kati Ylä-Hokkala, with juggling balls in the air above their heads

    The Games We Play review – an absorbing mix of juggling, dance and philosophy

    Gandini Juggling’s multifaceted show delves into the history of the art form while keeping several other balls in the air

December 2022

  • A woman's bare legs fly up into the air as she acrobatically embraces a man in an armchair

    Don’t look into the wardrobe: are Peeping Tom the world’s freakiest theatre troupe?

  • Left to right: England’s Jude Bellingham (face hidden), Jordan Henderson, Bukayo Saka and captain Harry Kane celebrate after scoring against Senegal in the World Cup.

    Dancing footballers and fans bring joy to the game

May 2022

  • There’s no business like show business … Barry and Joan Grantham are determined to pass the skills of variety on to future generations

    Barry & Joan review – all-singing all-dancing vaudevillians get their moment in the sun

    Nostalgic insight into the theatrical world of the Granthams, an eccentric couple from the golden era of entertainment

March 2022

  • Living portrait … James Thierrée in Room.

    Room review – chaos reigns as circus superstar James Thierrée climbs the walls

    Thierrée plays an architect whose building won’t behave and a director whose performers don’t listen in a playful if disjointed production

January 2022

  • Silently controlling the forces around her … Shantala Shivalingappa in Ash by Aurélien Bory at the Barbican during London international mime festival.

    Compagnie 111: aSH review – godlike serenity and transcendent movement

    Kuchipudi dancer Shantala Shivalingappa is hypnotically precise in a piece about renewal and transformation inspired by the Hindu god Shiva
  • Jean-Daniel Broussé.

    Jean-Daniel Broussé: (le) Pain review – baker’s son gets a rise in this playful, affecting solo show

    Broussé brings a tale of baking and suffering to glorious life in this much-kneeded autobiographical show

    • Gandini Juggling: Life review – a joyful love letter to Merce Cunningham

    • Gandini Juggling: Life review – Merce Cunningham tribute is a little gem

    • Give it up for Gandini, the jaw-dropping jugglers – in pictures

June 2021

  • Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me.

    Lockdown culture
    Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online

    From live streams of new plays to classics from the archive, here are some of the top shows online now or coming soon

January 2021

  • Set-spinning shifts … Leonor Estrada Francke’s Ballad of the Crone.

    Lockdown culture
    Manipulate festival review – visual theatre experiments on a different stage

  • Jacqui Beckford

    London international mime festival: 5 Short Films review – now everyone can watch

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