The London International Mime Festival returns to the Barbican with four captivating theatre shows, featuring eccentric puppeteers, Olivier Award-winning performers, and the rising stars of Belgium’s acclaimed contemporary theatre scene. Plus, a film screening about a circus knife-thrower takes place in the cinema with a live piano accompaniment.
The Old Trout Puppet Workshop: Famous Puppet Death Scenes
24—28 Jan, The Pit
Enjoy an unrelenting sequence of tiny little puppet deaths in a charming, poignant and slightly eccentric show from these celebrated Canadian puppet masters.
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25—28 Jan, Theatre
This UK début by rising stars of Belgium’s acclaimed contemporary theatre scene is a dark burlesque show in four acts that forces us to think about who we are and how much we need others.
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Sun 29 Jan, 3pm, Cinema 1
Outrageous, lurid and haunting – watch Tod Browning's The Unknown, a circus-set melodrama and one of the great silent films, accompanied by live music.
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31 Jan—4 Feb 2023, The Pit
This poignant, puppet tragicomedy for grown-ups is a wordless spectacle about the ingenuity of the mind and having to make do for so long without the people we wished would surround us.
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2—5 Feb, Theatre
Belgium’s Olivier Award-winning dance-theatre innovators return with the UK premiere of their new and most ambitious production yet.
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