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Performance & Physical

National Theatre Wales to go gigging with Gruff Rhys

The show Praxis Makes Perfect will open in May in a secret location in Cardiff and then pop up at music festivals around UK They have staged Aeschylus in the Brecon Beacons , and transformed the whole of the town of Port Talbot into the scene of Christ'

les ballets C de la B, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House

The Old King shows a man reduced to wordlessness, fighting to communicate or connect with an audience. Dancer Romeu Runa flails about, putting himself through gruelling tasks.

Mini-review - Fuerzabruta - Roundhouse

Well, it's the new year, and time for me to try a few new things, in this case letting a friend pick out a show for me. The show in point was Fuerzabruta at the Roundhouse, and I hadn't managed to find out much about it beforehand other than it was physic

Les Hommes Vides, Soho Theatre, London

Soho Theatre, London: The second show by Invisible Thread - the new puppet company from Faulty Optic's Liz Walker - is a simpler, more humorous affair than her previous work. There is none of the trademark use of live video-feed or bizarre wheels and pul

The Heads, Soho Theatre, London

Soho Theatre, London: Acclaimed puppetry company Blind Summit included an ingenious segment in its previous show, The Table, in which a series of disembodied faces floated between three picture frames. As a short vignette, it was beautiful and distractin

London International Mime Festival: Popcorn Machine, Purcell Room; The Cardinals, Roundhouse, review

Dominic Cavendish finds two smaller shows at the London International Mime Festival to be a mixed back.

Hand Stories, Barbican, London

Barbican, London: The UK premiere of Chinese puppeteer Yeung Fai's latest show has been feted as one of the highlights of this year's London International Mime Festival, and it's easy to see why. The personal story that Fai draws on for the piece is a co