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WELCOME to the 29th London International Mime Festival. LIMF07 promises to be another great season of boundary-breaking, contemporary visual theatre, with performances by rising stars as well as a host of established names in the fields of circus arts, puppetry, physical theatre and live art. Returning to the Festival with productions new to the UK are brilliant, young, circus-inspired performers, Jean-Baptiste André and Mathurin Bolze from France, the Swiss duo of acrobat Martin Zimmermann and DJ Dimitri de Perrot, and perhaps most notably, the legendary Philippe Genty Company which makes its first visit to Britain in fifteen years. Puppetry and animation fans won't want to miss a rare chance to see Faulty Optic's bizarre brand of mechanical theatre, and there's exciting work from other British companies including Al Seed, Company:Collisions, Ockham's Razor, Steven Whinnery, and the award-winning Inspector Sands/Stamping Ground Theatre joint venture. From Spain, Buchinger's Boot Marionettes make their UK debut, Switzerland's Philipp Boë offers a Magritte-inspired surreal detective tale, Complicité actor Jozef Houben explores the art of laughter, America's Rainpan 43 fuse vaudeville, ventriloquism, film and Beckett, and Wolfe Bowart weaves enchantment for all ages. John Fox, co-founder/artistic director of celebrated arts group Welfare State International is the inspirational speaker at this year's LIMF/Total Theatre Lecture. We are grateful to our artists, funders, venue colleagues, friends and supporters for their help in realising this programme. In particular, we acknowledge the invaluable help and financial assistance of Arts Council England, without which this festival could not take place. Help with Choosing SHOWS FOR ADULTS SHOWS WITH SOME SPOKEN TEXT/SONG |
