Review: London International Mime Festival at the Barbican by Ralph Barker
I’ve spent most of the last week at the Barbican, soaking up the outlandish beauty of the London International Mime Festival, full of all the whimsical wit and downright absurdity that this year’s productions have to offer. From vaudevillian puppet shows to borderline existential horror, I loved every minute. With still a few performances left before the festival wraps up, here’s my pick of the best so far, and what’s to come!
An honest talk about self-harm - Katie Wyver interviews Aoife Kennan on 'Scratches'
When a topic is hard to talk about, a stage can provide a space to place it, turn it over, and unpick it until it makes sense. For Aoife Kennan, performance has provided a way of talking honestly and creatively about self-harm.
Run-Riot interviews genre-fusing electronic artist Maria Uzor
Maria Uzor is a genre-fusing electronic artist who defies categorisation. Driven and inspired by the human need for connection, the only prerequisites for attending her shows are an open mind and your dancing shoes. Run-Riot caught up with Uzor to discuss how lockdown accelerated her solo career and the importance of accessibility in making music.
“It defies categorisation, and often gravity.” Interview with Helen Lannaghan and Joseph Seelig, LIMF
Image: Helen Lannaghan and Joseph Seelig, co-Directors, London International Mime Festival (LIMF).
For nearly fifty years, the end of winter has seen artists slink silently onto the stages of London’s theatres. This is the time of London’s International Mime Festival (LIMF), when dancers, circus performers and physical theatre performers take centre stage.
Kerenza Evans reviews Dolly Parton's Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol
Music, literature, film, covid vaccines - is there anything Dolly Parton can't do? Her latest venture sees A Smoky Mountain Christmas Carol come to London's Southbank Centre: a remake of the traditional story set in the Appalachian mountains with all songs penned by the Queen of Country herself.
