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london international mime festival 2015 8 > 31 january Circus Skills Age Guidance Barely Methodical Troupe Bromance Chris Lynam EricTheFred 12+ m ‘A must-see Circus Ronaldo Amortale Gecko Institute 14+ programme of Gandini Juggling 4 x 4 Knights of the Invisible Joli Vyann Stateless Black Regent 12+ me physical and Lonely Circus Fall, Fell, Fallen Theatre Ad Infinitum Light 12+ LONDON Oktobre Oktobre Trygve Wakenshaw Kraken 16+ visual theatre NoFit State Circus Noodles London International Mime Festival For people who are deaf/ 8 > 31 January 2015 work, from the Family Friendly hearing impaired UK and from Barely Methodical Troupe All shows have a visual narrative, New circus, extreme dance, physical Bromance 8+ with little or no use of text, except Mat Ricardo Showman, which imagery, fairground commedia and exotic around the Circus Ronaldo Amortale 8+ Gandini Juggling 4 x 4 8+ will have a BSL interpreted Japanese puppetry are just some of the world’ Lonely Circus Fall, Fell, Fallen 8+ performance on Wed 21 Jan and exciting and essentially wordless media Total Theatre Magazine Mat Ricardo Showman 8+ Oktobre, whose minimal text will through which the Mime Festival’s artists NoFit State Circus Noodles 4+ appear in the freesheet programme. tell their stories. Thomas Monckton/Circo Aereo Audio-described Performance The Pianist 5+ At LIMF 2015 ballet dancers collaborate Theatre Re Blind Man’s Song with Sean Gandini’s brilliant jugglers, Mime/Movement/Dance-theatre on Thu 22 Jan and Basil Twist’s sly foxes dance through Cie 111/Bory/Ito Plexus a hundred hand painted Japanese Knights of the Invisible Black Regent Peeping Tom 32 rue Vandenbranden mimelondon.com ‘dogugaeshi’ theatre screens. From updates : videos : booking Belgium, Peeping Tom makes its Theatre Re Blind Man’s Song London debut with a thriller set in a chilly Puppetry/Animation landscape of wind and ice, while Basil Twist Dogugaeshi Circus Ronaldo’s grandiose puppet Circus Ronaldo Amortale opera brings high tragedy and raucous comedy in equal measure.

Entrapped in a forest of light, the extraordinary Japanese dancer Kaori Ito performs in London for the first time in Plexus, created for her by Olivier Award nominee Aurélien Bory.

LIMF 2015 offers fabulous contemporary visual theatre for everyone. Read on and book early!

Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan photo: Barely Methodical Troupe Festival Directors pages 2 > 3 cover photo: Compagnie 111 / Aurélien Bory / Kaori Ito Platform Theatre Thu 8 > Sat 10 Jan

Barely Methodical Troupe (UK) BROMANCE London Premiere

LIMF 2015 opens in dynamic style with the debut show by Britain’s hottest young acrobats, winners of the inaugural Circus Maximus competition and a 2014 Total Theatre Award.

Relationships are the heart of Bromance, ‘…a show not to be where handshakes become handstands and missed, and backslaps become backflips. Audacious, with a standing ovation touching, exhilarating, and with a great this is a new company soundtrack, this is a tour-de-force of cutting to watch out for in the edge physical heroics, wittily exploring male future’ companionship and its limits. The Public Reviews Barely Methodical Troupe are Beren ‘It is great to see a d’Amico, Louis Gift, and Charlie Wheeller, young British company recent graduates of the National Centre for attempting to make Circus Arts. With their enjoyable personal thematic work, and not chemistry and exceptional skills in parkour, just doing tricks’ Bboying, tricking, hand-to-hand acrobatics, Cyr wheel and more, BMT are destined to The Guardian take British circus-theatre to new heights.

Production: Thu 8 > Sat 10 Jan 7.30pm DREAM, developed with support After-show discussion: Fri 9 Jan from Underbelly Runs 60 mins / no interval Productions and the Tickets: £17.50 (£15 concessions) National Centre for Circus Arts as winners Watch the video and book of the Circus Maximus competition. through mimelondon.com

Age guidance: 8+ pages 4 > 5 Soho Theatre Fri 9 > Sun 18 Jan

Trygve Wakenshaw (NZ) KRAKEN London Premiere

Trygve Wakenshaw’s KRAKEN is ‘a blissfully funny hour of physical stream-of-consciousness’ (Time Out), the delirious follow up to his Edinburgh and London 2013 smash hit, Squidboy. Starting with a brilliant, elasticised strip-tease entrance that confirms Marx’s dictum of history repeating itself, first as tragedy then as farce,KRAKEN is a masterpiece of absurd sensibility that follows its own zany logic. ‘It sounds mad, and it is. But in Oozing with whimsy, dripping with charm and Wakenshaw’s masterful hands the magnificently mad, rubber-limbed Trygve is his audience completely buys into the own animator in a cartoon world. Guileless and physical and narrative laws of his world’ innocent, even at his most risqué, this award- Broadway Baby winning, Gaulier-trained clown is a physical comedian in a class of his own. Don’t miss him - ‘To describe what actually happens in book now! the show would be pointless and unjust. If you’re willing to be conquered by his inspired clowning, you won’t regret it’ Fri 9 > Sun 18 Jan (Previews Tue 6 > Thu 8 Jan) The Age, Melbourne Tue > Sat 9pm, plus Sun 7pm, Sat 17 Jan 4pm No performance Mon 12 Jan ‘Reminiscent of the young Jim Carrey… After-show discussion: Tue 13 Jan rubber-faced, loose-limbed and Runs 60 mins / no interval wondrously expressive’ £10 Previews Tue 6 > Thu 8 Jan The Independent £15 (£12.50 concs) Fri 9 > Thu 15 Jan & Sat 17 Jan 4pm £17.50 (£15 concs) Fri 16 > Sun 18 Jan Tel: 020 7478 0100 Watch the video and book Presented in association with DON’T BE LONELY and Soho Theatre through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 16+ contains nudity pages 6 > 7 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room Sat 10 > Sun 11 Jan

‘An aesthetic gem of a show, leaves Lonely Circus (France) spectators holding their breath. Absolutely must be seen’ FALL/FELL/FALLEN L’Art-Vues UK Premiere ‘Totally satisfying, both physical All you need to know about balance and the art of falling and contemplative’ in a fascinating physical dialogue between cutting Ouest France edge acrobat Sebastien Le Guen, and electro-acoustic musician Jérôme Hoffman.

In Fall/Fell/Fallen, circus, theatre and music come together in a true artistic collaboration. Its story unfolds with astonishing equilibrium, unusual hand-made props and musical instruments, dark humour and an atmosphere that generates real tension. By and with: Jérôme Hoffmann and Sébastien Le Guen. Artistic collaboration: Nicolas Hérédia, Marion Coutarel

Sat 10 Jan 7.45pm Sun 11 Jan 3pm After-show discussion: Sun 11 Jan Runs 50 mins / no interval £18 Tel: 0844 847 9910 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 8+

Presented in association with Southbank Centre This visit to London is supported by Institut français

Co-production: Lonely Circus; La Verrerie d’Ales, Pôle National des arts du Cirque Languedoc Roussillon; U4 - Parc du haut fourneau/Uckange (57) pages 8 > 9 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room Mon 12 > Tue 13 Jan ‘In a landscape both primeval and futuristic, they bring us straight to the place where Arts can make a difference’ Knights of the Invisible (UK) Eugenia Praloran, Mirabilia, Italy BLACK REGENT Iona Kewney & Joseph Quimby UK Premiere

From the awesome to the incredible - with relentless strength of imagination and vision, Iona Kewney takes her body on a journey. Euphoric states and pure truth of movement take hold as the body’s vocabulary speaks louder than words. Composer, vocalist, multi- instrumentalist and presence, Joseph Quimby, is the majestic voice and sound of this other world. Coming from a visual art background, Iona’s bold, uncompromising performance work is layered with insight and strong intentions. It has featured at theatres and art, dance and circus festivals throughout Europe and America for many years. Iona trained at Netherlands Dance School and at circus school in Sweden; as well as performing her own work she has toured with Belgian directors Wim Vandekeybus/Ultima Vez and Alain Platel/les ballets C de la B. Laureates at the prestigious Jeunes Talents Cirque/Circus Next in 2013, their most recent appearance in London was a collaboration with artist Conrad Shawcross at the Roundhouse.

Mon 12 > Tue 13 Jan 7.45pm After-show discussion: Mon 12 Jan Runs 50 mins / no interval £18 Tel: 0844 847 9910 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 12+

Presented in association with Southbank Centre pages 10 > 11 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room Wed 14 > Sun 18 Jan ‘An hour of immensely enjoyable entertainment’ Broadwaybaby.com

Thomas Monckton / ‘Utilises a range of circus techniques and physical Circo Aereo (NZ/Finland) animations in a seamless, plausible flow of absurdities. THE PIANIST I’m sure this multi-talented London Premiere clown could do almost anything’ Poised, immaculate, and entirely focused on The Circus Diaries impressing his audience, an eager soloist presides over a spectacular concert catastrophe, a recital that never starts.

The Pianist is a solo, contemporary circus performance, centred on, in, under and around that most magnificent of instruments, the grand piano. One of his country’s most accomplished young actors, New Zealander, Thomas Monckton, trained at the Lecoq School in Paris, the city he has made his home. The Pianist mixes highly skilled physical comedy with a refined contemporary circus-theatre attitude. Produced by Finland’s innovative Circo Aereo the show has toured extensively since its première in 2013, including a sold- out season at the most recent Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Created by Thomas Monckton and Sanna Silvennoinen

Wed 14 > Sun 18 Jan Wed - Fri 7.45pm, Sat 6pm, Sun 3pm After-show discussion: Thu 15 Jan Runs 60 mins / no interval Tickets: £18 Tel: 0844 847 9910 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Presented in association with Southbank Centre Age guidance: 5+ Production: Circo Aereo pages 12 > 13 Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall ‘Hilarious chaos in a Fri 16 > Sun 18 Jan sublime spectacle. An absolute must’ Telegraaf Circus Ronaldo (Belgium) AMORTALE London Premiere

A night at the circus like no other! Belgium’s much-loved Circus Ronaldo harks back to the days of travelling fairground theatre, a warm- hearted Felliniesque world of uncomplicated popular entertainment. Amortale is Adam and Eve’s love story, or would be if other people didn’t get in the way. Performed on the Ronaldo’s antique and distinctly wobbly stage, it mixes tragedy and clowning, opera, circus, marionettes, and a touch of arson. Its old world charm, skill and humour are a delight. Circus Ronaldo has been a regular visitor to the Mime Festival since giving its first ever performances outside Flanders at LIMF 1998. Since then it has toured its irresistible, hand-crafted brand of commedia-circus far and wide.

Fri 16 > Sun 18 Jan Fri - Sat 7.30pm, Sun 5pm After-show discussion: Sat 17 Jan Runs 75 mins / no interval £17.50/£22.50/£27.50 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 8+

Presented in association with Southbank Centre

Co-production: Circus Ronaldo; Theater op de Markt; Festival van de verwondering – Humorologie. With the support of the Flemish authorities, the Flemish Community and the Province of Antwerp

pages 14 > 15 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room Mon 19 > Wed 21 Jan

Mat Ricardo (UK) SHOWMAN

With his fast hands, smart mouth and sharp suit, new circus pioneer, television and variety artiste Mat Ricardo is the ‘Gentleman Juggler’. Winner of Best Speciality Act at the London Cabaret Awards, and Pick of the Fringe Arts Award (Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2014) his show is packed with awesome skills and breathtaking spectacle. Showman is a marvel of object manipulation, and clever patter that’s engaging and informed about the mystique and history of his noble craft. A sell-out at last year’s Mime Festival, Showman returns by popular demand, and with some mind-blowing new routines. Early booking recommended.

‘This gloriously old-fashioned celebration of the juggler harks Mon 19 > Wed 21 Jan 7.45pm back to the golden age of variety After-show discussion Tue 20 Jan and vaudeville. Hugely enjoyable BSL interpreted performance Wed 21 Jan and artful…this showman Runs 60 mins / no interval deserves your applause’ Tickets: £18 The Guardian Tel: 0844 847 9910 ‘Immensely skilled and Watch the video and book very funny’ through mimelondon.com Time Out Age guidance: 8+

Presented in association with Southbank Centre

pages 16 > 17 Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room ‘Impossible not to be Fri 23 > Sun 25 Jan seduced by this black fantasy. A circus piece of highest quality’ Oktobre (France) Sud Ouest OKTOBRE UK Premiere

Three bizarre and enigmatic characters - acrobat, trapezist, and neurotic magician - flirt with mystery and disaster at the maddest tea party since Alice visited Wonderland. As if from another dimension, from a David Lynch or Tim Burton movie, their humour and magic are black. Where truth hides behind a veil of bluff and deception, who can say what’s real or not? Set in velvety darkness shot through with brilliant red, Oktobre will leave you bewitched and delighted. A winner at the prestigious Jeunes Talents Cirque/ Circus Next awards, Oktobre features three of France’s top young circus-theatre talents including YouTube sensation Yann Frisch, named International Federation of Magic Societies’ ‘2012 World Champion of Magic’. The director is Florent Bergal, whose Popcorn Machine for My!Laika was a popular hit at LIMF 2013.

Fri 23 - Sun 25 Jan Fri - Sat 7.45pm, Sun 3pm After-show discussion Sat 24 Jan Runs 70 mins / no interval Tickets: £18 Tel: 0844 847 9910 Presented in association with Southbank Centre Watch the video and book This visit to London is supported by Institut français through mimelondon.com Co-production: CIRCa - Pôle National des arts du cirque - Auch, Age guidance: 8+ Gers, Midi-Pyrénées; Circ queO!; La Cité du Cirque - Le Mans; Parc de La Villette; Transversales - scène conventionnée de Verdun; Théâtres Sorano - Jules Julien – Toulouse pages 18 > 19 Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House ‘Juggling: Tue 13 > Thu 15 Jan not just artful, but art’ The Guardian (UK) Gandini Juggling ‘Funny, beautiful, clever and affecting’ World Premiere 4 x 4 London Dance on Smashed 4 jugglers and 4 ballet dancers share a stage for the first time - 4 x 4 is a celebration of where these paths meet. Following the international success of their Pina Bausch-inspired sensation Smashed, 4 x 4 revisits the Gandini’s love affair with pure patterns and mathematics, creating delicate new architecture and taking us on fleeting journeys through time and space. A unique dialogue between jugglers and ballet dancers, 4 x 4 is directed by world renowned juggler Sean Gandini, choreographed by former Royal Ballet dancer Ludovic Ondiviela, with original composition Suspended op 69 by Vladimir Ashkenazy protégé, Nimrod Borenstein, and performed live by the exceptional young chamber ensemble, Camerata Alma Viva.

Tue 13 > Thu 15 Jan 7.45pm After-show discussion: Wed 14 Jan Runs 60 mins / no interval Tickets: £20/£17.50/£12.50/£7 Tel: 020 7304 4000 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com - Age guidance: 8+

4 x 4 is supported by the Royal Ballet Studio Programme in partnership with National Centre of Circus Arts; La Brèche, Pôle national des Arts du Cirque de Basse-Normandie / Cherbourg-Octeville; Agit Cirk, Lighthouse Poole Shoreditch Town Hall and Jacksons Lane 4 x 4 is generously supported using public funding by Arts Council England

pages 20 > 21 Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House Sat 17 > Tue 20 Jan ‘Sometimes comic, sometimes beautiful imagery… A visceral, physical, intriguing treat’ Gecko (UK) British Theatre Guide INSTITUTE ‘Gecko seems to have London Premiere mastered a new form of communication in which Following its LIMF 2014 hit with Missing, critically sounds and movement acclaimed physical dance-theatre company Gecko convey meaning more returns with an intimate, funny and revealing new effectively than words’ show exploring a world in which everyone relies on Total Theatre someone else for support, and what it means to care. Set in a labyrinthine institute of dark shadows and towering metal cabinets where memories are filed and relationships scrutinised, four people undergo a series of extraordinary ‘treatments’ as they struggle to prepare themselves for the outside world.

Institute is driven by Gecko’s desire to explore complexities in human nature. We are entering a time when we are potentially more fractured and disconnected than ever before. When the time comes, will anyone really care? Created by Amit Lahav

Sat 17 > Tue 20 Jan Sat, Mon & Tue 7.45pm, Sun 4pm After-show discussion: Sun 18 Jan Runs 75 mins / no interval £20/£17.50/£12.50/£7 Tel: 020 7304 4000 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com Age guidance: 14+

pages 22 > 23 Sadler’s Wells Thu 22 > Fri 23 Jan ‘A jewel of optical theatre, at the crossroads of magic, dance, puppetry and cinema’ Le Monde Compagnie 111 / ‘Drawing a portrait means Aurélien Bory / Kaori Ito revealing the invisible’ (France/Japan) Aurélien Bory PLEXUS UK Premiere Conception, scenography and direction: Aurélien Bory Performed by Kaori Ito Conceived by Aurélien Bory for the extraordinary Original music: Joan Cambon Japanese dancer Kaori Ito, Plexus is a jewel of Lighting design Arno Veyrat optical theatre. Sound Stéphane Ley Costumes Sylvie Marcucci Entrapped by five thousand cords, a forest of brilliantly Presented in association with lit strings, a warrior-woman conquers her environment so Sadler’s Wells that she floats, like a black angel, in a sumptuous cage that she can only leave by vanishing completely. This visit to London is supported by Institut français Following his Olivier Award-nominated What’s Become of You? for flamenco dancer Stéphanie Fuster (LIMF/Barbican Production Compagnie 111 - Aurélien Bory Co-production: Le Grand T Théâtre de Loire- 2014), Plexus is director Aurélien Bory’s latest portrait of Atlantique Nantes, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne, a remarkable dancer. Kaori Ito trained in classical ballet Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Le Parvis scène in Japan and America, then came to Europe where she nationale Tarbes-Pyrénées, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, La Coursive scène performed and choreographed with Philippe Decoufflé, nationale de La Rochelle, Agora pôle national Angelin Preljocaj, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, James Thiérrée, des arts du cirque Boulazac-Aquitaine and Alain Platel’s les ballets C de la B. Aurélien Bory and Kaori Ito are two of Europe’s most exciting dance innovators; Plexus is a revelation.

Thu 22 > Fri 23 Jan 7.30pm After-show discussion: Thu 22 Jan Runs 60 mins / no interval £12 - £28 Tel: 0844 412 4300 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com

Contains nudity pages 24 > 25 The Pit, Barbican ‘Thrilling... the pace of the Tue 20 > Sat 24 Jan performance never letting up’ The Observer

‘Immersive, imaginative and (UK) Theatre Ad Infinitum intensively invasive’ LIGHT British Theatre Guide London Premiere

Inspired by Edward Snowden’s revelations, Theatre Ad Infinitum conjures an Orwellian future where a totalitarian regime monitors the thoughts of its citizens through implants. Charged with hunting down ‘terrorists’ who seek illegal disconnection, a young government agent encounters an enigmatic figure from his shadowy past. This nightmarish tale of love, betrayal, and technological power, blends anime-style storytelling and a pulsating soundscape to draw audiences into a sci-fi realm. LED strips and torchlight innovatively illuminate this wordless production. Effortlessly switching styles in service of its latest subject, the company’s shows have been a highlight of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2008. Its Translunar Paradise was staged at The Pit as a highlight of LIMF 2014.

Tue 20 Jan > Sat 24 Jan 7.45pm After-show discussion: Wed 21 Jan Runs 70 mins / no interval Tickets: £18 (plus booking fee) Tel: 0845 120 7511 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com

Age guidance: 12+

Presented in association with the Barbican

Co-commissioned by London International Mime Festival Produced in association with Redbridge Drama Centre and The Lowry Supported by Arts Council England and Theatre Bench pages 26 > 27 The Pit, Barbican Wed 28 > Sat 31 Jan

Basil Twist (USA) DOGUGAESHI UK Premiere

Embark on a spectacular visual journey inspired by dogugaeshi – the Japanese art of creating illusions through perspective. As more than 100 hand-painted gilt and paper panels unfold, revolve and slide, images from ancient and contemporary Japan are revealed. Bamboo thickets, soaring bridges and dense cityscapes materialise, while wide- eyed foxes dance mid-air. Basil Twist collaborates with master musician Yumiko Tanaka, who plays the three-stringed shamisen live as an accompaniment. Basil Twist’s puppetry and design collaborations include Cinderella with Christopher Wheeldon at Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet, and A Winter’s Tale for the Royal Ballet in 2014. He was part of the creative team for Kate Bush’s recent Before the Dawn concerts in London.

Presented in association with Wed 28 > Sat 31 Jan the Barbican Wed - Thu 7.45pm Conceived and directed by Basil Twist Fri 6pm & 8.30pm, Sat 3pm & 6pm Music by Yumiko Tanaka After-show discussion: Thu 29 Jan Video design by Peter Flaherty ‘At once reviving a lost tradition and breaking Runs 60 mins / no interval Lighting by Andrew Hill new, creative ground’ Japan Times Associate lighting design by Tickets: £20 (plus booking fee) Ayumu Poe Saegusa Tel: 0845 120 7511 Sound by Greg Duffin ‘Intimate and spectacular, a haunting abstract piece about lost traditions’ New York Sun Watch the video and book Production: Tandem Otter Productions. through mimelondon.com Originally commissioned by ‘No theatre artist in New York is showing The Japan Society, New York more poetic force or technical skill than the Age guidance: 10+ Supported by the Great Britain puppeteer Basil Twist’ The New Yorker Sasakawa Foundation pages 28 > 29

Barbican Theatre Wed 28 > Sat 31 Jan ‘A theatrical electro- shock... their talent is terrifying’ Le Monde Peeping Tom (Belgium) ‘Peeping Tom’s surrealism 32 RUE VANDENBRANDEN and enigmatic visual style UK Premiere fascinate from beginning to end’ Theaterkrant Two rickety trailer homes sit within a snow-covered landscape, left wholly exposed to the elements. Here, the young people of a small mountain community succumb to their subconscious fears, overcome by loneliness they cannot escape. Cinematic set design, an evocative soundtrack and jaw-dropping physicality combine to create an unforgettable piece of dance theatre that plunges spectators into a foreboding universe of cold, wind and ice. Six performers contort, bend, jerk and levitate in dizzying scenes of hypnotic movement. Belgian dance collective Peeping Tom has toured internationally with this show, impressing audiences with the ingenuity and hyper-real quality of its work. These performances for LIMF 2015 at the Barbican mark the company’s London debut. Presented in association with the Barbican Wed 28 > Sat 31 Jan 7.45pm Production: Peeping Tom After-show discussion Fri 30 Jan Co-produced: KVS Brussels, £16 > £28 (plus booking fee) Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt 80 mins / no interval am Main, Le Rive Gauche Saint- Etienne-du-Rouvray, La Rose des Vents Tel: 0845 120 7511 Villeneuve-d’Ascq, Theaterfestival Boulevard ‘s-Hertogenbosch in Watch the video and book collaboration with Theater aan through mimelondon.com de Parade and Verkadefabriek, Theaterhaus Gessnerallee Zurich, Age guidance: 12+ Cankarjev Dom Ljubljana and Charleroi /Danses

Conceived and directed by Gabriela Carrizo and Franck Chartier Peeping Tom is supported by the Performed and created by Seoljin Kim, Hun-Mok Jung, Marie Gyselbrecht, Flemish Authorities Jos Baker, Maria Carolina Vieira / Sabine Molenaar and Eurudike De Beul pages 30 > 31

Jacksons Lane Thu 15 > Sat 17 Jan ‘The most dangerously funny man on the planet’ Eddie Izzard

Chris Lynam (UK) ‘A wild clown in a class of his own’ ErictheFred The Times World Premiere ‘Surreal unhinged quality which makes for comic greatness’ In a 30 year career Chris Lynam has proved to be, in The Guardian the words of the New York Times, ‘a brilliantly bizarre antidote to today’s truculent society’. He has appeared at the world’s top comedy festivals, been a support act for the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan among many others, and tours regularly with Slava’s Snow Show. Taking us backstage into the private world of a clown performer, ErictheFred is the strange and poignant story of an old trouper trying to come to terms with a fading career. Gradually his innermost thoughts become visible - holograms of doubts, dreams and delusions which disturb and torment him until the startling climax. Developed in collaboration with Tomas Kubinek, John Wright, Kate McKenzie, Josie Lawrence and Clive Howard, with original music by Kevin Sargent, composer of scores for a string of successful movies, ErictheFred blends film projection and live action. It is a richly evocative and touching new piece by one of this country’s most original artists. If you think you know clowns - think again.

Thu 15 > Sat 17 Jan 8pm After-show discussion: Fri 16 Jan Runs 55 mins / no interval Tickets: £17 (£15 concessions) Tel: 020 8341 4421 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com

Age guidance: 12+ pages 32 > 33

Jacksons Lane ‘Theatre Re has a gorgeous Wed 21 > Thu 22 Jan aesthetic quality that enchants the audience’ A Younger Theatre

Theatre Re (UK) BLIND MAN’S SONG World Premiere

‘The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart’ Helen Keller While a blind old man walks around his room with unsteady steps, a story of love, courage, hope and unquenchable vision unfolds. Blind Man’s Song is a tale of one man’s rage against the world of darkness. Inspired by René Magritte’s paintings, the dead-end world of Samuel Beckett and interviews with blind and visually impaired people, it uses theatre, mime, sound and original live music in exploring the power of imagination to seek wisdom beyond our senses. Established in 2009, Theatre Re is a London- based international ensemble, creating vibrant and emotional work on the edge of mime and theatre. Its two previous productions, The Gambler and The Little Soldiers, have both toured widely following successful Edinburgh Fringe seasons.

Wed 21 > Thu 22 Jan 8pm After-show discussion: Wed 21 Jan Audio-described performance: Thu 22 Jan Conceived and directed by Guillaume Pigé Runs 55 mins / no interval Original music: Alex Judd Tickets: £15/£13 Performers: Alex Judd, Guillaume Pigé, Selma Roth

Tel: 020 8341 4421 Supported by Arts Council England and Haringey Council. Produced in association with South Hill Park Arts Centre, the Watch the video and book Greenwich Theatre and the Institut français, London. through mimelondon.com Theatre Re is an associate company of Age guidance: 8+ South Hill Park Arts Centre pages 34 > 35

Jacksons Lane Sat 24 > Sun 25 Jan

Joli Vyann (UK) STATELESS London Premiere

Joli Vyann’s new show crosses the frontiers of theatre, dance and circus to explore the topical subject of refugees, immigration and journeys. Its powerful stories of emotional ‘The risk factor is high, and upheaval and the fates of people crossing the story is told to emotionally borders, unfold with intense physicality, charged effect’ hand-to-hand acrobatics, bodies flying and Exeunt falling. There are moments of sadness, courage, friendship and humour, provoking us to think about humanity, tolerance, and the state of being stateless. One of Britain’s most unusual and ambitious new circus companies, Joli Vyann was founded Devised and performed by Jan Patzke and Olivia Quayle. Music & choreographic in 2012 by Olivia Quayle and Jan Patzke. In the collaboration by Florence Caillon. same year it won the National Theatre’s Watch This Space and Stockton International Riverside Produced by Turtle Key Arts Co-commissioned by Activate Performing G120 scheme. Stateless is the company’s third Arts as part of the PASS Circus Channel show and devised in collaboration with French Project and The Point composer, choreographer, actress and circus Supported by Bristol Old Vic, La Brèche, Pavilion Dance South West, Jacksons Lane, artist, Florence Caillon. The Lighthouse Poole and The National Centre for Circus Arts

Sat 24 > Sun 25 Jan Sat 8pm, Sun 5pm After-show discussion: Sun 25 Jan Runs 60 mins / no interval Tickets: £15/£13 Tel: 020 8341 4421 Watch the video and book through mimelondon.com

Age guidance: 8+ pages 36 > 37

Jacksons Lane ‘You walk out of the theatre feeling Tue 27 > Sat 31 Jan good about the world’ British Theatre Guide

‘A fabulous curiosity - when it comes to stage imagery Komaro has delivered a masterfully curated piece’ The Stage

NoFit State Circus (UK) NOODLES London Premiere

In a sea of irreverent chaos and a world of knots, wires and spaghetti, a surreal cooking show loses the plot and the noodles take over. Created by Clown Director Holly Stoppit and the company with the crazy ideas of Finland’s Maksim Komaro, Noodles is fun, funny and fantastic, and features an international cast of top circus artists. Aerialists, hand-balancers, wire-walkers, contortionists and musicians twist and spin reality in an original and inventive show that challenges your preconceptions about circus. Beautiful and completely mad!

Based in Cardiff, with a repertoire of successful shows touring the Initial concept and ideas: world and a mission ‘to be the circus everyone wants to join’, NoFit Maksim Komaro State has lead the renaissance of contemporary circus in the UK. Directed by Holly Stoppit Creative Producer: Tom Rack Performers: Cristina Geninazzi, Klara Mossberg, Lisa Angberg, Tue 27 > Sat 31 Jan Watch the video and book Miguel Muñoz, Zenaida Alcalde Tue - Fri 8pm, Sat 3pm through mimelondon.com After-show discussion: Wed 28 Jan Runs 70 mins / no interval Suitable for all ages Tickets: £17 (£15 concessions) Tel: 020 8341 4421 pages 38 > 39

FILMS

LES ENFANTS CIRCO AEREO - DU PARADIS (France) FOUR SHORT CIRCUS FILMS (Finland)

Directed by Marcel Carné, 1943-45 But filmed during the German occupation FLIP (9’00) Jacksons Lane Acrobat: Rauli Kosonen Fri 30 Jan 7pm Barbican Centre, Cinema 2 of Paris a century later, the doubts Sun 18 January 2.30pm and menacing atmosphere of the time Saturday 31 Jan 2pm POLTE (8’20) Free admission Runs 70 mins seem to colour the swirling passions Fire Artist: Tomi Elo Tickets: £9.50 (Concessions £8.50/ and fleeting moments of happiness Tel: 020 8341 4421 Young Barbican £5) plus booking fee that enfold its unforgettable gallery of CLUB (8’00) Book through mimelondon.com Tel: 0845 120 7511 characters. With Arletty, Jean-Louis Jugglers: Jouni Ruuth, Book through mimelondon.com Barrault as the white face mime Jean Kaito Takayama, Heikki Tolin LIMF and Jacksons Lane are delighted Baptiste, and the father of modern mime to be screening four of Circo Aereo's Mime theatre and cinema come together - Etienne Decroux - as his father. NARRI (8’30) short films,Flip, Polte, Club, and Narri, in what is one of almost every film buff’s Acrobat: Rauli Kosonen which each focus on a different circus art, favourite movies. Carné and Prevert’s A cinematic masterpiece always best portraying and examining it through the camera, lending a perspective that would romantic epic is set in the Parisien experienced in its full glory on the big Directed by Sanna Silvennoinen, not be possible in live performance. theatre world of the 1840s, amongst the screen. Filmed by Jukka Mantere aristocrats, street performers, actors, Produced by Circo Aereo and criminals and courtesans who were Ilves Films 2014 drawn to the Théâtre des Funambules. pages 40 > 41 WORKSHOPS

LIMF is delighted to offer a BOOKING: [email protected] comprehensive range of workshops for more information & booking form. to complement its performance Early booking is advised as Angela’s programme. The festival is especially courses sell out very quickly. grateful to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama for its continued ANGELA DE CASTRO support and generosity in facilitating HOW TO BE EVEN many of the courses. Visit mimelondon.com for full details MORE STUPID Advanced exercises for experienced on each course clowns This NEW 5 day workshop for experienced clowns offers the opportunity to practice at high-level, and to be able to play with performers of similar experience. WHEN Mon 19 > Fri 23 Jan 9am - 4pm WHERE: London - venue details will be released to confirmed participants COST: £350 BOOKING: [email protected] for more information & booking form

ANDREW DAWSON GECKO INHALE THE SPACE A two-day workshop distilled from GECKO DAVID GLASS ANGELA DE CASTRO Andrew’s experience as an originator ATHLETES OF THE HEART CREATING AUTHENTIC of work, and from his training with Led by Amit Lahav THEATRE Merce Cunningham, Philippe Gaulier, A five-day intensive workshop as an Jacques Lecoq, Monika Pagneux and A two-day workshop introducing ANGELA DE CASTRO introduction to artistic director Amit The Feldenkrais Method. Taking the participants to tools that will enable them HOW TO BE A STUPID Lahav’s creative process and Gecko’s movement and skeletal structures to generate authentic, resonant images or The Clown’s Intelligence approach to physical theatre and within your body as a starting point, the and scenarios that can be applied as devising for performance, providing A popular institution at the Mime Festival, workshop will explore how that body starting points in a devising process. a unique opportunity to delve into the renowned clown Angela de Castro interacts with the surrounding space, WHEN: Sat 24 & Sat 31 Jan world of Gecko. Using its newest work teaches her unique, full-time, full-on, creating fresh pathways that lead to 10am - 5pm Institute as a starting point, it will focus ten-day workshop exploring the state of enhanced creativity and performance. WHERE: Royal Central School of on ways of devising for performance clown and clown persona development. WHEN: Sat 10 > Sun 11 Jan Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue, ‘from scratch’, developing participants An intense, inspiring, challenging and 10.30am - 5pm London, NW3 3HY skills and creativity through this dynamic transformatory journey, with laughs and WHERE: Goldsmiths, University of COST: £120 physical theatre workshop. play along the way, this workshop is a London, Lewisham Way, London BOOKING: mimelondon.com/ WHEN Mon 5 > Fri 9 Jan 10am - 5pm rare opportunity to discover the secrets SE14 6NW workshops WHERE: Royal Central School of of the clown in a supportive environment. COST: £120 Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue, WHEN Mon 5 > Fri 16 Jan BOOKING: London, NW3 3HY 9am - 4pm [email protected] WHERE: London - venue details will be COST: £295 released to confirmed participants BOOKING: geckotheatre.com £650 COST: pages 42 > 43 WORKSHOPS

GUILLAUME PIGÉ LISPA LONDON INTERNATIONAL FROM THE ACTOR TO LONDON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MIME FESTIVAL PERFORMING ARTS THE MIME Somerset House, South Wing, DEVISING THEATRE AND Strand, London WC2R 1LA This one-day workshop will be an PERFORMANCE introduction to the work of Etienne +44 (0) 20 7637 5661 Led by Thomas Prattki and members of [email protected] Decroux and his assistants. From body the LISPA team articulation to counterweights, from Directors: Helen Lannaghan & Joseph Seelig dynamo rhythm to mobile statuary, This two-day workshop offers an Production Manager: Bill Deverson participants will discover how to play introduction to both collaborative Festival Manager: Dudley Hinton their body like a violin, how to create and individually devised theatre and Festival Assistant: Carla Van der Hoeven movement in stillness and how to be performance practice. It addresses all Artist Liaison: Vera Erenbourg, Ros Malyon BSL Interpreter: Jacqui Beckford ready for action. performers, dancers, actors, directors WHEN: Sat 17 Jan 10am - 5pm and teachers who have a specific interest Discussion Facilitators: WHERE: Royal Central School of in the idea of devising original work. Adrian Berry, Lyn Gardner, Jean-Charles Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue, WHEN: Sat 24 > Sun 25 Jan Herrmann, Donald Hutera, Angus MacKechnie, London, NW3 3HY 10am - 4pm Dick McCaw, Dorothy Max Prior, Arthur Smith WHERE: LISPA, 3 Mills Studios, Three COST: £60 Press Representatives: BOOKING: mimelondon.com/ Mill Lane, London, E3 3DU Arthur Leone PR 020 7836 7660 workshops COST: £100 for the two days BOOKINGS: [email protected] or Marketing Consultants: Mobius Industries 020 7269 9929 LISPA call 020 8215 3390 lispa.co.uk LONDON INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF Graphic Design & Website: PERFORMING ARTS SPECIAL OFFER: BOOK BOTH KeanLanyon 020 7697 8453 keanlanyon.com LISPA WORKSHOPS FOR £175 THE POETIC BODY Brochure printed by Axis axisononline.co.uk Led by Thomas Prattki and members of the LISPA team THEATRE AD INFINITUM PHOTO CREDITS: VAMOS This two-day workshop explores the MAKING THEATRE WITHOUT ANGELA DE CASTRO © Lee Carter idea of embodiment as a key element WORDS: BARELY METHODICAL © Matilda Temperly/Christopher in the process of developing original When Actions Speak Louder VAMOS THEATRE Reynolds Led by George Mann and Nir Paldi art. Through use of the Neutral Mask, REVEALING THE MASK: BASIL TWIST © Richard Termine a cornerstone of LISPA’s teaching A five-day workshop exploring a visual A Workshop in Full Mask Theatre CHRIS LYNAM © Clive Howard philosophy, participants are invited to and non-text based theatre practice via CIE 111/BORY/ITO © Aglae Bory/Mario del Curto Vamos Theatre, one of the UK’s leading make links between movement and a Lecoq-style method that will push the CIRCUS RONALDO © Benny de Grove full mask theatre companies, offers a one- emotion, life and art, the physical body physical limits of the performer as a FINNISH CIRCUS FILMS © Jukka Mantere day workshop introducing participants and the poetic body. creative theatre maker. The workshop GANDINI JUGGLING © Dan Pickard/Jane Hobson to this exciting and unusual theatre style, WHEN: Sat 17 > Sun 18 Jan will explore how the actor in an empty GECKO © Farrows Creative/Richard Haughton focusing on understanding non-verbal 10am - 4pm space can use the body to create JOLI VYANN © Gigi Giannella communication, physical theatre skills, WHERE: LISPA, Three Mill Lane, characters, spaces, emotions, poetry and KNIGHTS OF THE INVISIBLE © Tom Van Nuffel devising scenes, and the techniques that London, E3 3DU atmospheres, and ultimately tell stories - LONELY CIRCUS © Philippe Laurençon make full mask performance effective. COST: £100 for the two days without words. MAT RICARDO © Mat Ricardo/Sin Bozkurt WHEN: Sat 10 Jan 10am - 5pm BOOKING: [email protected] WHEN: Mon 26 > Fri 30 Jan NOFIT STATE CIRCUS © Sean Purser WHERE: Royal Central School of or call 020 8215 3390 lispa.co.uk 10am - 4pm OKTOBRE © Daniel Michelon Speech and Drama, Eton Avenue, WHERE: Chisenhale Dance Space, PEEPING TOM © Herman Sorgeloos London, NW3 3HY 64-84 Chisenhale Rd, London E3 5QZ THEATRE AD INFINITUM © Alex Brenner COST: £60 COST: £250 THEATRE RE © François Verbeek BOOKING: mimelondon.com/workshops BOOKING: THOMAS MONCKTON/CIRCO AEREO © Heli Sorjonen vamostheatre.co.uk [email protected] TRYGVE WAKENSHAW © Tony Virgo theatreadinfinitum.co.uk pages 44 > 45 BOOKING

By Phone: 020 8341 4421 Concessions: see sadlerswells. Southbank Centre’s TRAVELLING TO SHOWS (£1.95 transaction fee applies) com/terms for details Purcell Room at Please allow extra travel time Queen Elizabeth Hall at weekends due to planned Barbican Cinema, Theatre & By Post: 269a Archway Road, Tube: Angel. Full travel details at engineering work on tubes The Pit, Barbican Centre, London N6 5AA. Cheques sadlerswells.com Southbank Centre’s Queen and trains - details and route Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS payable to ‘Jacksons Lane’ Elizabeth Hall Access: planners at www.tfl.gov.uk Collect tickets from the Box Basil Twist email [email protected] Belvedere Road, London Office, or add 50p for postage. LATECOMERS AND Peeping Tom or telephone: 020 7863 8128 SE1 8XX BABES IN ARMS Theatre Ad Infinitum Concessions: Senior Citizens, Linbury Studio Theatre at the Circus Ronaldo Latecomers may not be Les Enfants du Paradis (film) students, under 16s and Royal Opera House, Covent Knights of the Invisible admitted and no babes in unwaged, with proof of status. Online: barbican.org.uk Garden, London WC2E 9DD Lonely Circus arms please! Registered carers attend free of (£3 transaction fee applies) Mat Ricardo charge with ID. Gandini Juggling Oktobre BOOK ONLINE VIA In Person: At the Advance Gecko Tube: Highgate Thomas Monckton MIMELONDON.COM Box Office, Silk Street entrance, Online booking links, Online: roh.org.uk ground floor (Level G). Access: 21 Dean Street, Online: slideshows, ebook and pdf Mon-Sat 10am-9pm, Sun and See website for details In Person: Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. London W1D 3NE southbankcentre.co.uk (£1.75 of this brochure, largetext Bank Holidays 12 noon-9pm. transaction fee applies) page, free mailing list, links to The Box Office is in the Link, Trygve Wakenshaw connecting Bow Street to Company websites with videos By Phone: 0845 120 7511 Concessions: Limited Covent Garden Piazza. Online: sohotheatre.com and much more! Mon-Sat 10am-8pm platform theatre concessions are available Sun 11am-8pm (£4 transaction (no transaction fee) By Phone: 020 7304 4000 for each performance. THANK YOU fee applies). Most major credit and debit In Person: Mon-Sat 10am - Visit southbankcentre.co.uk The 2015 London International Groups: Buy 10 or more tickets cards are accepted. 10pm. (no transaction fee) for more information. Mime Festival gratefully acknowledges co-operation/ and save 20%. 020 7382 7211. By Post: PO Box 6, Covent By Phone: 020 7478 0100 In Person: financial support from: Conditions apply. Central Saint Martins, University Garden, London WC2E 7QA. (no transaction fee) Royal Festival Hall of the Arts London. Handyside Arts Council England; the Discounts: Membership, Young Cheques payable to ‘Royal 10am-8pm daily Street, King’s Cross, London By Post: Soho Theatre 21 Barbican; The Flemish Barbican, under-16, student, Opera House’ No transaction fee N1C 4AA (Handyside Street Dean Street, London W1D 3NE. authorities; The Flemish school, access and group is off York Way, west of the Tube: Covent Garden Cheques payable to ‘Soho By Phone: 0844 847 9910 Community and the City of discounts apply. Visit barbican. junction with Copenhagen St.) Theatre’. Collect from the Box 9am-8pm (£2.75 transaction fee Antwerp; the Great Britain org.uk Access: Office, or add £1 for postage applies) Sasakawa Foundation; Institut Barely Methodical Troupe See website for details français; Southbank Centre Tube/train: Barbican, Moorgate Concessions: Westminster Tube: Charing Cross, (registered charity) Online: Access: Please contact Box residents, groups, Senior Embankment, Waterloo platform-theatre.com Citizens, students, under 26, Office or email access@ Access: children, unwaged and registered barbican.org.uk Door sales: 0844 875 0073 disabled, with proof of status. Any unsold tickets will be accesslist@ See website for full details. available for sale on the door 1 southbankcentre.co.uk hour before the performance Tube: Oxford Circus, Tottenham Tube/Train: Rosebery Avenue, Court Rd, Leicester Full travel King’s Cross, St Pancras. London EC1R 4TN details at sadlerswells.com 269a Archway Road, Leave King’s Cross tube via Cie 111/Aurélien Bory/Kaori Access: London N6 5AA Pancras Road/Regent’s Canal Ito 020 7478 0100 exit. Full details and map at sohotheatre.com/visit-us/access/ Chris Lynam platform-theatre.com/contact-us Online: sadlerswells.com Theatre Re (£1.75 transaction fee applies) Joli Vyann Access Information: email NoFit State Circus [email protected] In Person: Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. Online: jacksonslane.org.uk By Phone: 0844 412 4300 (£1.95 transaction fee applies) (£2.50 transaction fee applies) In Person: Mon-Sat By Post: Ticket Office, Sadler’s mimelondon.com 10am-7.30pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Wells, Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4TN. updates : videos : booking pages 46 > 47 LONDON INTERNATIONAL MIME FESTIVAL 2015 mimelondon.com

DATE PLATFORM THEATRE SOHO THEATRE SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S SOUTHBANK CENTRE’S LINBURY JACKSONS LANE THE PIT / CINEMA 2, BARBICAN SADLER’S WELLS PURCELL ROOM QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL ROYAL OPERA HOUSE BARBICAN THEATRE Thu 8 Barely Methodical (Trygve Wakenshaw Troupe 7.30pm previews 6-8 Jan 9pm)

Fri 9 Barely Methodical Trygve Wakenshaw 9pm Troupe 7.30pm*

Sat 10 Barely Methodical Trygve Wakenshaw 9pm Lonely Circus 7.45pm Troupe 7.30pm

Sun 11 Trygve Wakenshaw 7pm Lonely Circus 3pm*

Mon 12 Knights/Invisible 7.45pm*

Tue 13 Trygve Wakenshaw 9pm* Knights/Invisible 7.45pm Gandini 7.45pm Wed 14 Trygve Wakenshaw 9pm Thomas Monckton 7.45pm Gandini 7.45pm*

Thu 15 Trygve Wakenshaw 9pm Thomas Monckton 7.45pm* Gandini 7.45pm Chris Lynam 8pm

Fri 16 Trygve Wakenshaw 9pm Thomas Monckton 7.45pm Circus Ronaldo 7.30pm Chris Lynam 8pm*

Sat 17 Trygve W’shaw 4pm/9pm Thomas Monckton 6pm Circus Ronaldo 7.30pm* Gecko 7.45pm Chris Lynam 8pm

Sun 18 Trygve Wakenshaw 7pm Thomas Monckton 3pm Circus Ronaldo 5pm Gecko 4pm* Les Enfants 2.30pm

Mon 19 Mat Ricardo 7.45pm Gecko 7.45pm

Tue 20 Mat Ricardo 7.45pm* Gecko 7.45pm Th Ad Infinitum 7.45pm

Wed 21 Mat Ricardo 7.45pm # Theatre Re 8pm* Th Ad Infinitum 7.45pm*

Thu 22 Theatre Re 8pm § Th Ad Infinitum 7.45pm C111/Bory/Ito 7.30pm*

Fri 23 Oktobre 7.45pm Th Ad Infinitum 7.45pm C111/Bory/Ito 7.30pm

Sat 24 Oktobre 7.45pm* Joli Vyann 8pm Th Ad Infinitum 7.45pm

Sun 25 Oktobre 3pm Joli Vyann 5pm*

Mon 26

Tue 27 NoFit State 8pm

Wed 28 NoFit State 8pm* Basil Twist 7.45pm Peeping Tom 7.45pm

Thu 29 NoFit State 8pm Basil Twist 7.45pm* Peeping Tom 7.45pm

Fri 30 NoFit State 8pm Basil Twist 6pm/8.30pm Peeping Tom 7.45pm*

Sat 31 NoFit State 3pm Basil Twist 3pm/6pm Peeping Tom 7.45pm

* Meet the Artists after the show #BSL interpreted performance: Mat Ricardo Wed 21 Jan § Audio Described performance: Theatre Re Thu 22 Jan