5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Kin London MIME Festival 2022 Lucy Ashe 28/01/2022 Kin surprises the audience at every turn. Comedy shifts into the most extraordinary acrobatics, which then propels us forward into poignant moments of joy, a physical display of the power of human connections. ...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Bluebelle London MIME Festival 2022 Emily Louizou 17/01/2022 This is a mime piece about ghosts, fairies and parenthood and a great deal more than just that! Staged by Theatre Re - one of the UK’s leading visual theatre companies - it is a must-see in this year’...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Life – a love letter to Merce Cunningham London MIME Festival 2022 Tim Hochstrasser 16/01/2022 As part of the London Mime Festival the renowned group, Gandini Juggling, bring their new show to Sadler’s Wells for a brief run. This work is a wholly delightful tribute to the dance style and aesthetic of Mer...
A Quiet Revolution: About The Festival Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 10/10/2021 Closer Strangers: East is a platform that enables ‘intercultural dialogue’. As a representation of the Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Queer communities, this festival in not just a performance nor is it a co...
Shelter Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 07/10/2021 Down a side street of ram shackled buildings and rust rimmed cars, there is a door. It is not a welcoming door. In fact, the paint is so chipped that there is more damp and blackened wood on show than visible c...
That Walk Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 03/10/2021 Agata Siwiak, the art director of Close Strangers: East, is a firm believer in participatory theatre not as a temporary solution due to the pandemic, but as the future of performance. That Walk is an event put ...
Stand Up (for your rights) Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 02/10/2021 The scene is set. We are attending a stand-up performance by Belarusian activist and artist Jana Shostak. We are screaming for Belarus; we are sharing a global scream. Often, when someone sees a beauty pa...
Pandemic.ua Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 30/09/2021 Pandemic.ua is a project inspired by the inability to communicate in conventional theatrical ways during the pandemic. This performance has a longer history, and is made up of pieces of a previous project under...
H-Effect Close Strangers Festival 2021 Grace Creaton-Barber 28/09/2021 On Friday night, the festival saw the main event; the ‘spectacle’. Close Strangers: East is full to the brim with new and innovative approaches to performance so it was nice to uphold some tradition and step fo...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Così fan tutte Alessandro Zummo 13/08/2021 The current production of Così fan Tutte at the 2020 Salzburg festival was already staged last year with some cuts to the original score in order to comply with the health requirements due to the pandemic: a ma...
