Jos Houben Belgium
The Art of Laughter
Purcell Room,
Southbank Centre >
Sat 12 to Sun 13 Jan
Sat 7.45pm, Sun 3pm & 5pm
BSL interpreted performance:
Sun 13 Jan 3pm
Runs approx 65 mins with no interval
All seats £13 (limited concs)
Online booking >
'If there's a more inspired contemporary physical comedian - I don't know of him' The New Yorker ‘With the subtlest of glances, or slight turn of the head, Houben has the entire audience in stitches' The Scotsman
The 30th London International Mime Festival opens with the return of Jos Houben's brilliant analysis of physical comedy, The Art of Laughter. A sell out last year and a Total Theatre Award winner at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival, this witty and engaging performance/lecture explains and illustrates what makes audiences laugh. As well as being one of the original members of Complicité and involved in many of its greatest early hits, Jos' twenty year career includes writing and directing for groups such as The Right Size, involving him in some of the most successful physical comedy creations of recent times. He recently appeared in Paris and London in Fragments, a production directed by Peter Brook to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Samuel Beckett's birth, and which will tour to America and Asia in early 2008. He teaches at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris.
Early booking recommended.
Presented in association with Southbank Centre
