Festivals

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Coulrophobia
London MIME Festival 2020

30/01/2020

Challenging two main stereotypes against clowns, the children’s party entertainers and the more horrific and twisted “Killer Clown” phenomenon, Coulrophobia (or fear of clowns) shows us the funnier and more vul...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

ANIMA

Blake Gordon Plante

24/01/2020

Where many acrobatics shows can be described as breathtaking, ANIMA can be described as breath-controlling. Inspired by their research and experience with yogic pranayama breathing and the Wim Hof (“Ice Man”) m...

5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Boys

Blake Gordon Plante

23/01/2020

The greatest kind of theatre doesn’t call for a reviewer, it calls for a worshipper. BOYS by ThePappyShow is worthy of fervor because it courses with joyous energy that feels like catharsis and liberation. BOYS...

3.0★ ★ ★

Tria Fata

Blake Gordon Plante

21/01/2020

“Life is like a succession of births.” Tria Fata tells the story of a woman visited by “Mrs. Death.” Not yet ready to go, she hands Mrs. Death one of her legs, requesting a little time for her life to flash bef...

1.0★

Rooman
London MIME Festival 2020

Caroline Perret

16/01/2020

From its description as a show full of creative experimentation in which a young woman meets a kangaroo man in her dreams, one would expect to enter an imaginative world full of poetry and wonder; it is anythin...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

Only Bones 1.4
London MIME Festival 2020

Blake Gordon Plante

12/01/2020

The show’s light, a dynamic piece hanging from the ceiling, addresses the audience, initiating us to the mime show’s premise. Thomas Monckton, creator of Only Bones 1.0, set down a challenge: make a show with o...

3.0★ ★ ★

Le Sacre du Printemps
Festival d’Automne

Marie Communal

25/11/2019

In the context of the Festival d’Automne in Paris, Xavier Le Roy seizes the mythic Sacre du printemps and proposes a very original version of it. There is no ballet, only three dancers who successively come on ...

2.0★ ★

Grammaire étrangère
Festival d’Automne

Marie Communal

25/11/2019

‘If I say “chop” or “devour”, there is the birth of an image. Even if this image is at the same time, curiously enough, an invisible image. Everybody sees what devour means... But who devours and what, we never...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

The Beacon
Dublin Theatre Festival

Emilie Dumesny

10/10/2019

Set in a sea-view cottage on an island off the Southern coast of Ireland, The Beacon immediately plunges the spectator in its atmosphere before it even begins. The set, simply yet beautifully designed by Franci...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

Beckett’s Room
Dublin Theatre Festival

Emilie Dumesny

26/09/2019

As the title of this new Dead Center/Gate theatre production indicates, it is a play about a place. Indeed, the only actual living creature seen on stage during the play is… a cockerel. Entering the Gate The...

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Up, Up, Up & Away

Catherine Flutsch

17/06/2020
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The Red Shoes

Richard McKee

11/03/2020
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The Revenger’s Tragedy

Tim Hochstrasser

09/03/2020
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Mr Toole

Ann Pryor

09/03/2020
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Il Barbiere Di Saviglia

Shmuel Ben-Tovim

01/03/2020
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Pass Over

Phil Setren

22/02/2020
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Be More Chill

Richard Voyce

19/02/2020
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Die Zauberflote

Owen Davies

18/02/2020
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Bleak House

Catherine Flutsch

10/02/2020
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Cabaret

Mel Cooper

06/02/2020

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Playwright, actress and screenwriter Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, playwright-actress-screenwriter Donnetta Lavi...
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Catherine Flutsch

15/07/2020

Lucy Askew, the Chief Executive and Creative Producer of Creation Theatre, Oxford had a zoom conversation with critic, C...

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Austin Fimmano

17/01/2020

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Coulrophobia
London MIME Festival 2020

ANIMA

Boys

Tria Fata

Rooman
London MIME Festival 2020

Only Bones 1.4
London MIME Festival 2020

Le Sacre du Printemps
Festival d’Automne

Grammaire étrangère
Festival d’Automne

The Beacon
Dublin Theatre Festival

Beckett’s Room
Dublin Theatre Festival

What is Gift Aid?