MimeLondon

OPEN CALL
An award for theatre projects aimed at young artists under 35, in honour of the wondrous and much missed Marcello Magni.

Total award fund 20,000,00 Euros
Submit your applicationby June 2th.

Premio Marcello Magni The Premio Marcello Magni for Theatre, with a total prize fund of €20,000.00, is open to projects of theatrical performances created by emerging artists or groups, newly formed companies, or artists engaged in new paths of research.The Prize aims to support the creation of an original and unpublis...

COMMEDIA DELL ARTE WORKSHOP
with Peta Lily
Sat 6 & Sun 6 June
10am - 5.00pm
Early Bird Rate available

Get in touch with your own gloriously flawed humanity on this enlivening course!

Add verve to your character creations!
Stretch your devising play!
Get in touch with your own gloriously flawed humanity!
Learn by doing and watching others play!

Discover and enjoy playing these vibrant, enduring characters:
the irrepressible and joyous Arlecchino (Harlequin)
the incorrigible Pulcinella (ancestor of Punch from Punch & Judy)
the crotchety Pantalone
the flamboyant, cowardly Capitano
the pedantic charlatan - Il Dottore
the hapless Zanni
the well-dodgy Brighella
the unpredictable Witch
and Colombina, the clever servant.

This course is open to beginners.. as well as those with workshop or performing experience

COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE Discover and enjoy playing the vibrant, enduring characters that are the backbone of theatre! This course is open to beginners ... as well as those with workshop or performing experience 6 & 7 June 2026 10am – 5.00pm Yes, there will be masks! We will follow up with an email with further info on pa...

PHYSICAL COMEDY FOR ALL PERFORMERS
with John Towsen

SUN 24 & MON 25TH MAY 10am - 6pm
at the Comedy School,
14-15 Gloucester Gate, Camden, London, NW1 4HG.

Make your comedy more physical! Make your physicality funnier!

Courses - Physical Comedy John Towsen This is more than just a clown workshop — not that there’s anything wrong with that. Instead, we take a broader approach to physical comedy that will be of use to actors, stand-up comics, mimes and, yes, clowns. You will be exposed to a wide physical comedy vocabulary that is news to most comedi...

And the second show we'll be supporting is

Michael Zandl’s FOOD (Austria/Netherlands)
Southbank Centre's Purcell Room
13-17 January 2027

Like a swarm of locusts devouring all in its path, humanity sweeps across the planet.
Everything is up for grabs, everything is edible, everyone wants more.

Michael Zandl’s circus-theatre company invites you to an extraordinary feast where art can literally taste delicious and scenery is there for the eating. Watch as the boundaries between desire and necessity blur, giving rise to something bizarre, surprising, and hypnotic.

Featuring expert object manipulation, acrobatics, illusion and deadpan humour, everyone gets stuffed in this hilarious, wordless circus reflection on contemporary consumerism.

Trained as an agricultural scientist and circus artist, Austrian born Michael Zandl is based in Holland. His previous show Sawdust Symphony was an Edinburgh hit, described by the Guardian as ‘Looney Tunes meets Pina Bausch' and by Broadway World as ‘wonderfully absurd... leaving spectators in awe’. With FOOD the company makes its London debut.

'It‘s quite possible that I’ve already seen the best show of the season"
Wendy Lubberding, Theaterkrant

Tickets are on sale now:
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mimelondon-food/

We're excited to share the first show we're supporting as part of MimeLondon 2027.

Miet Warlop (Belgium)
INHALE DELIRIUM EXHALE
Southbank Centre’s Queen Elizabeth Hall
Sat 23 & Sun 24 Jan 2027
UK Premiere

Art and life blur in this delirious act of creation, destruction, and renewal.

Belgium’s representative at the 2026 Venice Biennale, visual artist Miet Warlop dramatically combines dance-theatre and live art performance in a hypnotic storm of movement, fabric, and sound. Drawing inspiration from the movement of waves as symbols of change and unpredictability Inhale Delirium Exhale reveals the hidden turbulence of the creative process.

Across a stage flooded with some six thousand metres of silk and cashmere, performers wrestle with waves of gorgeously sensuous material that seem to breathe, tremble, and overwhelm. It’s a world charged with static energy, where chaos meets beauty.

Set to a pulsating score by DEEWEE, Inhale Delirium Exhale unveils as a living painting, plunging into a visual universe that is as immersive as it is overwhelming, exploring the delirium that happens between one breath and the next.

“Miet Warlop turns 4 miles of silk into a stunning spectacle” New York Times

“Warlop is not a choreographer, nor a theatre director, nor a painter, but all of these things together” Il Tempo



photos by Reinout Hiel

Tickets are on sale now:
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/mimelondon-inhale-delirium-exhale/

Now available to listen to on SoundCloud, here is the audio for the talk given by Mark Evans and Simon Murray as part of MimeLondon 2026 in collaboration with the Society for Theatre Research at St Anne's Church, Soho.

MARK EVANS & SIMON MURRAY LECTURE Reclaiming mime from the condescension of posterity A conversation around the themes, ideas, perceptions, contexts, personalities, histories and controversies enshrined in their recently published book, Mime into Physical Theatre: a UK Cultural History

Such sad news about Iona Kewney, a truly remarkable artist. Her company, Knights of the Invisible, performed Black Regent with on-stage partner, Joseph Quimby, in the Purcell Room in the 2015 festival. She was very special - tempestuous and talented. RIP Iona 🖤

‘Utterly hilarious’: Simon McBurney on how the great clown Philippe Gaulier changed his life The Complicité founder remembers his teacher’s wicked laughter, provocative demands and infinite generosity

A rare recording of an extract from Philippe Gaulier and Pierre Byland’s show,
Les Assiettes from 1972

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Les Assiettes | RTS Qui n'a jamais rêvé de casser des assiettes? Performance de Pierre Byland et Philippe Gaulier.

Vale Philippe Gaulier, a teacher and performer who changed the course of so many lives.

From his partner Michiko:
Dear Friends,

It is with deep sadness that I inform you that Philippe Gaulier passed away on February 9, 2026, at 21:30, due to complications from a lung infection.

In his final moments, he was peaceful and beautiful. He did not suffer; he simply fell into an eternal sleep. It almost seemed as though he was smiling, as if relieved to be free once again.

Since his battle with illness began following a stroke in 2023, he received warm words of encouragement from all over the world. He seemed especially happy to receive letters and messages from his former students.

Teaching was his passion and purpose in life. He was loved by so many people—what a truly happy life he lived.

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who supported him, especially during these last three years of his illness.

Michiko Gaulier and his family

Note: If I receive information about memorials, donations, etc. I will provide them asap.