Inspired by the work of Pina Bausch, this funny and thrilling work explores conflict, tense relationships, lost love, and afternoon tea on an even grander scale than the original.

Smashed is a cult piece that has become a worldwide sensation. Premiered at the National Theatre’s outdoor Watch This Space Festival in 2010, it received its first theatre performances at the Mime Festival and has since been performed more than 500 times across the globe.

In this special edition, created for the 40th anniversary of the London International Mime Festival, 17 performers challenge all preconceptions of juggling as they disrupt the carefully created constellations of flying fruit, and instead celebrate the ‘drop’ as the apples come tumbling down, and with them, the rigid conventions of etiquette, dress and body language.

"As terrifyingly vicious as it is funny." - Lyn Gardner, The Guardian