LONDON INTERNATIONAL MIME FESTIVAL

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The first Festival took place at The Cockpit Theatre and Arts Centre, London NW8, in January 1977. It is now the longest running festival of its kind in the world. With the exceptions of 1983 and 1986, the Festival has taken place each year, featuring, in addition to workshops, films, debates and special events, performances by the following artists and companies.

1977
AMIEL Switzerland
ANNIE STAINER UK Moon
BRITISH THEATRE OF THE DEAF UK The Most Dangerous Animal of All
CHRIS HARRIS UK Kemp's Jig
DESMOND JONES UK
JUSTIN CASE UK
MARITA PHILLIPS UK
MUTE PANTOMIME THEATRE UK Day of the Dog
NATHANIEL UK
NOLA RAE UK
SONNY HAYES MAGIC FANTASY UK
THEATRE SLAPSTIQUE UK

1978
DESMOND JONES UK
GROUPE DU GRAND REVEUR Argentina
JANGO EDWARDS USA
JUSTIN CASE UK Case Incognito
KATIE DUCK USA
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK Creatures From the Swamp, The Examination, Ruby Robberies
MILAN SLADEK Germany Solopantomimen
NOLA RAE UK Some Great Fools From History
PETER WYSSBROD Switzerland Le Grand Depart

1979
AMIEL Switzerland Un Jour La Terre
BEN BENISON UK Wigan Pierrot
BOB BERKY USA Foolsfire
CIRQUE ALFRED Czechoslovakia Adam and Eve
DAVID GLASS UK Peter and the Wolf
EDWINA DORMAN CO. UK Prufrock
HECTOR MALAMUD Argentina People Love Me (Myths of the Western World)
MOU GON GUEKI Japan Doubleman
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK The Seven Samurai and other stories
NORTHERN BLACK LIGHT THEATRE UK Totem
ROLF SCHARRE Germany Solopantomime
ZIPPO UK Zippo the Clown

1980
BOB BERKY USA Fun in Futility
CACOFONICO CLOWN THEATRE Int Eoo!
DAVID GLASS UK A Shade Before
DESMOND JONES & SILENTS UK Petty Vices
FARID CHOPEL Algeria Chopelia
GAG THEATRE Czechoslovakia Gagman
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK The Lotttery
NOLA RAE UK Some Great Fools From History
PATRICK BECKERS Belgium Depaysage
THEATRE DE L'ABRE France La Cage
THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT France Equilibre Instable, Les Mutants, Cartoon.
VELYO GORANOV Bulgaria A Mime Narrates
VERONIQUE SCHOLER Switzerland Augustine

1981
BOB BERKY USA Foolsfire
CVOCI Czechoslovakia The Crash
I COLOMBAIONI Italy
IN TRIPLICATE UK The Game + Therese
JOHN MOWAT UK Nine Mimes
JULIAN CHAGRIN UK
MIME THEATRE TERMIEK Holland The Rainbow Cafeteria
MICHAEL MULKERRIN UK
NOLA RAE UK Prime Cuts + Futurefool
PARISIANA Belgium
PRESENT MIME COMPANY UK Over the Wall
RADEIS Belgium Because of Illness/ I didn't know that England was so beautiful
TARA RAJKUMAR India
THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT France Tant Que La Tête Est Sur Le Cou
THREE WOMEN Int High Heels

1982
ANNIE FRATELLINI France
BOLEK POLIVKA CO. Czechoslovakia Pepe
DANIEL STEIN USA The Timepiece
DAVID GLASS UK Stories + Petrouschka
DIMITRI Switzerland
ELECTRIC LIGHT SHOW UK
GERBE DE BLE France
HECTOR MALAMUD Argentina People Love Me
JACQUES LECOQ France Tout Bouge
JOHN MOWAT UK Sebastien the Bugle Boy & Other Stories
NOLA RAE & CHRIS HARRIS UK Double-Up!
PIERRE ETAIX France
PANTOMIMUSITATEN Germany
THEATRE WHISPERS UK Dracula
THREE WOMEN Int Follies Berserk
TWO REEL COMPANY UK In the Footsteps of Frankenstein

1984
AVNER EISENBERG USA
BERKY, MOSCHEN & GARBO USA Foolsfire
CINCONE / ROGANTE Italy Sonno / The Citizen's Journey
CIRCUS FRATELLINI France
EDWINA DORMAN UK Six Characters and Friends
HANOCH ROSEN Israel Solo
HOYLE / TERRY USA Geoff Hoyle Meets Keith Terry
JAGRAN India Theatre of the Oppressed
JOHNNY MELVILLE UK Troubleshooter / Members Only
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK City Limits / Handle With Care
NOLA RAE UK Upper Cuts
PETA LILY UK Barbaric Practices
PETER WEAR UK The Legend of Robin Hood
THEATRE DE COMPLICITE Int Put It On Your Head
THEATRE DE L'ATELIER Belgium My Foot My Tutor
TRESTLE THEATRE CO. UK Hanging Around / School Rules / Creche

1985
BYLAND / SCHNITKER Switzerland Confusion
DAVID GLASS UK The Shrinking Man
ENTR'ACTE Australia Refractions
FOOTSBARN Int King Lear
L'OISEAU MOUCHE France Ella O...Telegrammes
MIVVY THEATRE COMPANY UK Surface Tension
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK Passionate Leave
NOLA RAE UK The Urge
PETA LILY UK Whole Parts
PLEXUS USA Kurlytov Family Circus and Other Pieces
RA-RA-ZOO Int Juggling With A Social Conscience
THEATRE DE COMPLICITE Int A Minute Too Late
THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT France Instablasix + En Ce Temps-La
THOMAS LEABHART USA How I Was Perplexed and What I Did About It
TRESTLE THEATRE CO.UK Plastered
TRICKSTER THEATRE CO. UK Charavari

1987
ADAPTORS USA Autobahn
AXIS MIME THEATRE Canada Synthetic Energy + Fool's Angel
BIM MASON UK When You Gotta Go
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK Mantrail
BEN KEATON UK Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist
DAVID GLASS UK Dinosaurs of Weltsmertz
JOHN LEE UK The Death and Resurrection Show
JOHN MOWAT UK America + Leonardo
KNEEHIGH THEATRE UK Fool's Paradise
LES BUBB UK Sonata in Dream Major
MICK WALL UK One Up The Sleeve
MIME THEATRE PROJECT UK The Six-Sided Man
NOLA RAE UK Mime Gala
PAT VAN HEMELRIJCK Belgium Terracotta
RA-RA-ZOO Int Circus-Comedy-Theatre
ROWAN ATKINSON UK Mime Gala
STATION HOUSE OPERA UK Christopher Colombus
TEO JOLING & LUCIA MEEUSEN Holland The Concert
THEATRE DE COMPLICITE UK A Minute Too Late
THEATRE DE LE MIE PAIN France Seance Friction
TRESTLE THEATRE Co. UK A Slight Hitch
WISSEL THEATRE Belgium Ou Est La Bete (The Containers)
YORKSHIRE ACTORS' CO. UK The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1988
ADVENTURES IN MOTION PICTURES UK Does your crimpline go all crusty when you rub?
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK
BOLEK POLIVKA Czechoslovakia The Jester and the Queen
DANIEL STEIN USA Inclined to Agree
DAVID GLASS UK Enter Dr. Phillip
DUST WEBLINGS UK The Door
FORTUNATI UK Beyond the Mirror
JULIE FORSYTH / ANTHILL THEATRE Australia Kid's Stuff
KEATON / SEDGWICK UK The Last Turkey
LES BUBB UK Make Your Brains Go Pop
LOS TRIOS RINGBARKUS Australia
MARK KINGSFORD Holland Off Limits
MOMIX USA
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK Seven Samurai + Handle With Care
NOLA RAE UK Bottom of the Garden and Other Twisted Tales
PETA LILY UK Frightened of Nothing
PUSHKALA GOPAL / UNNIKRISHNAN UK
RICK ZOLTOWSKI UK Coming Home
STEEN / SWEENEY UK The Rupert Pupkin Collective
STUDIO HINDERIK Holland Sidewalk Edge
THEATRE DE COMPLICITE UK Theatre de Complicite and Guests
THEATRE DE LA MANDRAGORE Belgium L'Etrange Mr. Knight
TRICKSTER PRODUCTIONS UK Cabbages and Queens
WISSEL Belgium Patagonian Night

1989
ABEL & GORDON Belgium Danse des Poules
BOB BERKY USA An Evening With Bob Berky
BOLEK POLIVKA Czechoslovakia The Survivor
BYLAND / SCHNITKER Switzerland Confusion
DERECK, DERECK (Julia Bardsley / Phelim McDermott) UK The Vinegar Works
GRIF THEATER Holland Caoutchouc
HABBE & MEIK Germany Nose Missing
HEAP & WALL UK An Imaginary Illness
JACQUES BOURGAUX France Don Quixote
LES BUBB UK Make Your Brains Go Pop
MARK KINGSFORD Holland Off Limits
NATURAL THEATRE COMPANY UK Jekyll and Hyde Follies
PAUL CLARK Holland Sucking Stones + Time and the Man
TAG TEATRO Italy The Madness of Isabella
THEATRESPORTS UK Hamlet Improvised
TRESTLE THEATRE UK Ties That Bind

1990
BOLEK POLIVKA Czechoslovakia The Jester and the Queen
DAN KAMIN USA The Corpozoid Man + Confessions of an Illusionist
DAVID GLASS ENSEMBLE UK Popeye in Exile
DERECK, DERECK PRODUCTIONS UK The Institute
HABBE & MEIK Germany Nose Missing
JACKSON / STANWOOD USA Mimic Sole
JOFF CHAFER UK Executive Stress
JOHN MOWAT CO UK Yours Eventually
MCDOUGALL / NAWALOWALO UK Mime and Magic
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK Generalissimo
TAG TEATRO Italy The Madness of Isabella
TALKING PICTURES UK Lucky People
THEATRE DE COMPLICITE UK An Evening With Theatre de Complicite
THEATRE DE LA MIE DE PAIN France Starjob
TRESTLE THEATRE CO. UK L'Amfiparnaso

1991
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK Mothers + Superheroes
BOI DE MAMAO Brazil Friar Bentinho of St. Anthony
CARMELO Italy The Magic Circle
COTILLARD CO France Les Hommes
DAVID GLASS ENSEMBLE UK Bozo's Dead
EL TRICYCLE Spain Slastic
ENNIO MARCHETTO Italy
JULIAN CHAGRIN CO Israel An Evening of Mime, Music and Madness
KEATON / MCDERMOTT / SIMPSON UK Zoo House
MIME THEATRE PROJECT UK New Worlds
NOLA RAE UK Elizabeth's Last Stand
NO ORDINARY ANGELS NZ/Brazil Solemn Gestures
PEUGOT / MILLET USA Hotshots
RECKLESS SLEEPERS UK Push Parallel
TAG TEATRO Italy Scaramuccia
THEATRE DE L'UNITE France Mozart Au Chocolat
THE RIGHT SIZE UK Flight to Finland
TIM TYLER Australia Mr. P.P. in Bathtime Was Never So Much Fun
TRESTLE THEATRE CO UK Vintage Stuff

1992
ANGELA DE CASTRO Brazil The Gift
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK Drowning
BOI DE MAMAO Brazil Tamoyos
BROUHAHA Int Fish Soup
COMMOTION UK PoInt of Departure
DRAMMATICO VEGETALE Italy Adventures of Ginocchio
FREAKSHOW UK The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
JEFF MCBRIDE USA Mask, Myth and Magic
LE QUATUOR France Crazy Strings
LEICESTER HAYMARKET (dir: Phelim McDermott/Julian Crouch) UK Ghost Downstairs
LINDA KERR-SCOTT UK Ave Maria
LOUISE REISER UK Say That Again and I'll Kill You
MARCELINE & SYLVESTRE Spain Bugaboo
MOSSOUX BONTE Belgium The Last Hallucinations of Lucas Cranach the Elder
PAUL MOROCCO USA Paul Morocco and the E.C. Big Band (Alessandro Bernardi & Bill Bailey).
PHILIPPE GENTY CO. France Desirs Parade
SRDJAN SORICH Croatia Rain
TALKING PICTURES UK A Beautiful Life + Europeans
THE RIGHT SIZE UK Moose
THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT France Lettre Au Porteur
TRESTLE THEATRE CO. UK Crime of Love
ZUMPA & LALLERO Italy Scientimental

1993
ARTHUR SMITH UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK Heart
BOLEK POLIVKA CO. Int Mickey Mouse, Don Quixote and Others
BROUHAHA Int Whatever the Weather
CARTOON SARDINES France Le Malade Imagine
COMECON THEATRE Int Touched
COMMOTION UK No Matter What
COTILLARD CO. France All Men Are The Same
DA DA DUMB UK Chance and Ripeness
DAVID GLASS UK Glasseye + Pierrot In Love
FAULTY OPTIC UK Darwin's Dead Herring
FLYING DUTCHMEN Holland/Canada
ELS JOGLARS Spain Yo Tengo Un Tio En America (I Have An Uncle in America)
ENNIO MARCHETTO Italy 15 Years in the Glass Box
GHAFFAR POURAZAR Iran Computer Animation
INSOMNIAC PRODUCTIONS UK L'Ascensore (The Lift)
LACKAAL DUCKRIC France The Museum of Supernatural History
LCDT UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
LES BUBB UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
LES COUSINS France Not So Easy
MOVING PICTURE MIME SHOW UK Creatures From the Swamp + Handle With Care
MTP PRODUCTIONS UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
PARTI-PRIS UK Hatchet Plan
PAUL WILDBAUM Canada An Evening of Me
RICHARD O'BRIEN UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
SIMON FANSHAWE UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
STOMP UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
TAG TEATRO Italy La Zincana (The Gypsy Woman)
TALKING PICTURES UK Liars, Fakers and People Being Honest + Go West
TEATRO DE ARTE POPULAR Brazil Popol Vuh
THEATRE SMITH-GILMOUR Canada To Cry Is Not So
TOBY SEGDWICK UK 15 Years in the Glass Box
TRESTLE THEATRE CO. UK State of Bewilderment

1994
ANGELA DE CASTRO Brazil The Gift
ARTHAUS UK
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK E.D.R. (Earliest Date of Release)
COMMOTION / THE INSTITUTE UK The Quest for Don Quixote
JEROME DESCHAMPS CO. France Les Pieds Dans L'Eau (Manchester City of Drama)
DA DA DUMB UK Chance and Ripeness + Da Da Dumb
GANDINI JUGGLING PROJECT UK nEither Either botH and
INSOMNIAC PRODUCTIONS UK Clair de Luz
JOHN MOWAT UK Comedy in Error
JOHN WRIGHT CO. UK On the Verge of Exploding
LE QUATUOR France Devil Strings
LICEDEI MINUS 4 Russia Moumie
MOSSOUX BONTE Belgium Twin Houses
MOULIN THEATRE France Alter Ego
MTP PRODUCTIONS UK The Three Musketeers
NOLA RAE / SALLY OWEN UK And The Ship Sailed On
PEPPER KAMINOFF USA Pepper
RA-RA-ZOO UK Cabinet of Curiosities
RALF, RALF UK It's Staring You Right in the Face
RECKLESS SLEEPERS UK Parasite
RIGHT SIZE UK Moose
SHIRO DAIMON Japan Salome Komachi
THEATRE DE COMPLICITE Int A Minute Too Late
THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT France Another Short Hour

1995
ARTHAUS UK
BACKSTAIRS INFLUENCE UK She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK Forgotten Heroes
BROUHAHA Int Light at Night
CIRCUS SPACE CABARET UK
ERNST FISCHER UK A Brief History of...(Silence)...
FAULTY OPTIC UK Snuffhouse - Dustlouse
GLEE CLUB UK Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World
JORDI BERTRAN CO. Spain Visual Poems
LINDSAY KEMP CO. Int Cinderella - A Gothic Operetta
MARCEL MARCEAU CO. France The Overcoat
MARIONETTEATERN Sweden Ghost Sonata
MIKE ASHCROFT UK Le Baton
PEEPOLYKUS Int No Man's Land
PEOPLE SHOW UK People Show 100
TEATRAL YEN Brazil Kao
THEATRE DE L'ANGE FOU Int The Man Who Preferred to Stand
THEATRE IN CAHOOTS Int Day of the Dead
THEATRE MESCHUGGE Germany
TOLD BY AN IDIOT UK An Evening With the Bondress
TRESTLE & BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP UK Goblin Market + The Soldier's Tale
UMBILICAL BROTHERS Australia
YOSHI OIDA Japan Interrogations

1996
ACADEMY PRODUCTIONS Int Acts Without Words
BLACK MIME THEATRE UK Dirty Reality 2
CIRCUS SPACE CABARET UK
CLOD ENSEMBLE UK Musical Scenes
DNA CABARET UK
IMPROBABLE THEATRE UK Animo
JEROME THOMAS CO. France Hic Hoc
LEE & DAWES UK In the Ether
MISTER JONES Holland
MOSSOUX BONTE Belgium Twin Houses
PEOPLE SHOW UK People Show 101
RAIMUND HOGHE Germany Meinwärts
RALF, RALF UK The Summit
RASPOSO France Le Fou de Bassan
REJECT'S REVENGE UK Peasouper
SCARLET THEATRE UK Paper Walls
STEPHEN MOTTRAM'S ANIMATA UK The Seed Carriers
THEATRE MANJANA Sweden The House of Bernarda Alba
WURRE WURRE Belgium Don't Wurre


1997
BARABBAS Ireland Strokehauling
CIRCUS SPACE CABARET Int
EZECHIEL GARCIA-ROMEU France Le Marotoscope
FAULTY OPTIC UK Shot at the Troff
FISCHER / SPACKMAN UK Love in the Time of Melancholia
GLEE CLUB UK Beatrice on the Frankfurt Express
GUY DARTNELL UK Bottle (a voidance)
IMPROBABLE THEATRE UK 70 Hill Lane + Animo
JEREMY ROBINS UK Primary Object Love + Slippery When Wet
JOHN WRIGHT & GUESTS UK Facing It Out
LES COUSINS France
MOSSOUX BONTE Belgium The Last Hallucinations of Lucas Cranach the Elder
ODDBODIES UK The True Tragedy of Rchard III
PUNCH & JUDY COLLEGE OF PROFESSORS UK At Home With Punch & Judy
PYRAMIDE CO. France Photo Roman
ROBERTSON / TAYLOR UK Fantastical Voyage
STEPHEN MOTTRAM'S ANIMATA UK The Seed Carriers
TANTALUS UK Seven Ages
TA TA DI DI TEATRO UK Dr. Zingaro's Secret
TEATRO DEL CARRETTO Italy Biancaneve (Snow White)
THEATRE DE L'ANGE FOU Int Memories of Unknown Ties
THEATRE DU MOUVEMENT France Retrospective
THEATRE LE RANELAGH Int Sur La Route De Sienne
THE SHAMANS Hungary Amine

1998
BLACK HOLE PRODUCTIONS Int The Singularity
CIRCUS RONALDO Belgium
CONSPIRACY UK Conspiracy in the Circus Space
DAWSON / HOUBEN UK/Belgium Quatre Mains (Four Hands)
DEREVO Russia The Red Zone
DUST Australia Dust...A Clown Adventure
18 FOLGATE STREET UK
GATEWAY TO FREEDOM & THE STRIKE THE MAN BAND UK Also Available in White
KIRSTIE LITTLE UK Average White Girl
LA RIBOT Spain 13 Piezas Distinguidas + Mas Distinguidas 97
LES ACROSTICHES France
PEEPOLYKUS Int I Am A Coffee
PEP BOU Spain Bufaplanetes
PUNCH & JUDY COLLEGE OF PROFESSORS UK Lunch With Mr. Punch
SCARLET THEATRE UK Double Gazing
THEATRE DE L'ANGE FOU Int Resonance + Passage of Man
TOLD BY AN IDIOT UK Don't Laugh, It's My Life

1999
ALICE POWER & ALICE PURCELL UK A Special Offer
ANDREW DAWSON & GAVIN ROBERTSON UK Space Panorama
BP ZOOM France
DEREVO Russia Once
FAULTY OPTIC UK Tunnel Vision
FIGURENTHEATER TUBINGEN Germany Faces of the Night
GILLES JOBIN CO Switzerland A + B = X
JOSEF NADJ CO France Woyzeck
NEIL THOMAS Australia Blue Boys
NOLA RAE UK Mozart Preposteroso
PAOLO NANI Italy The Letter
PEP BOU Spain Ambrossia
STRETCH PEOPLE UK There's Another One
TOLD BY AN IDIOT UK I Weep At My Piano
VIS A VIS France Visa Pour L'Amour
YVAN THE IMPOSSIBLE Canada