Review: Le Gateau Chocolat’s Black

Review: Le Gateau Chocolat’s Black

Le Gateau Chocolat is renowned as a sumptuous, decadent treat: his monumental yet playful stage presence, that rich, emotional earthquake of a voice, the beard and, not least, all that lycra. Yet those who have followed his performative trajectory will know that this...
Review: The Worst Of Scottee

Review: The Worst Of Scottee

  Whereas “Best Of” albums tend to signal that a band’s sell-by date is overdue, The Worst of Scottee highlights the eponymous artist at the height of his expressive powers. This giddy pinnacle is reached whilst wallowing in the messy gutter of his past....
LIMF Review: One Step Before The Fall

LIMF Review: One Step Before The Fall

In our latest review from the London International Mime Festival, we cover a highly unusual show in which a solo performer uses a boxing ring as both stage and prop. There is something terribly poignant in a person’s hand slipping from their own knee as they attempt...
LIMF Review: Anatomia Publica

LIMF Review: Anatomia Publica

The London International Mime Festival continues at the Barbican this week. Anatomia Publica by Man Drake is a tale of a post-war threesome told through physical theatre. Choreographer Tomeo Vergé has wild eyes and a seductive flickering gaze: her three minute spoken...
LIMF Review: Vortex

LIMF Review: Vortex

Appearing as part of this year’s London International Mime Festival, Phia Menard’s Vortex is an exquisite, perfectly formed bruise. Technically extraordinary, it dissects our human disguises with a devastatingly deft touch. A single genderless, faceless...