Tour News

Cast for The Exploded Circus

We’re incredibly pleased and excited to announce the cast for our upcoming show The Exploded Circus. We work with astonishing women to tell powerful visual stories. In The Exploded Circus we will continue to push the boundaries of physical work with a cast made up of six versatile circus artists: Alice Allart on trick bike…
The Audience Award

We’re extremely honoured to have been awarded the Audience Award 2017 at Strassentheater Festival at Holzminden, Germany! Thank you everyone for the support and the lovely audience for always being so welcoming!
Read Silvia’s story

Our joint-artistic director, Silvia Fratelli is featured in ISAN’s member spotlight column. Here’s a little snippet, click on the link for the whole story. […] ISAN:What’s the best artistic advice you’ve been given? SF:I grew up in a fairly conventional Italian family, but my mum was quite forward thinking and a very positive female role…
If I could I would preview

We have been in rehearsals with If I could I would for the past two weeks and we are proud to say that we now have a new show on our hands! On the last day of rehearsals we we invited some friends and colleagues to watch the run through before the show hit the road (we were…
Mimbre at Women Of the World festival

Some images from Mimbre performing an extract from our new show If I Could I Would at WOW at Southbank Centre this year. Last year’s WOW festival inspired us for some of the themes dealt with in the new show – like everyday sexism and super(s)heroes – and today again we came away with inspiration…
Exciting times!

We got a Mimbre fantastic spring coming up! Here’s a list of upcoming events, do join us! We’ll be at Women of the World (WOW) Festival on the 12 March with a short extract from our new show, If I could I would in the central bar at Royal Festival Hall, 1.50 pm, more details here! No…
Mimbre’s Spring & Summer Show Announcements

We are delighted to announce Mimbre’s exciting plans for Spring & Summer 2016 with 2 shows available to go on tour! Our new show If I Could I Would will premier in May and will go on the road with Bench– back by popular demand! If I Could I would – a self-contained and easy to tour 3 hander – is…
Tour Chronicles: Waddesdon Manor, 20 – 21 June

Having done art A level at school, I was ecstatic to be performing right in front of a Henry Moore sculpture! The bench fit into the surroundings beautifully and despite a terrible forecast we managed to perform 3 and a half times out of four, which was really lucky. The audiences really enjoyed the piece…
Tour Chronicles: Bremen La Strada, 13-14 June 2015

A few weeks ago the ladies set out on the long journey to La Strada Festival in Bremen. I hadn’t heard of the festival before but as it turns out La Strada is the biggest street performance festival in Germany, setting a stage for innovative street theatre and cirque nouveau. It’s been running for 21 years…
Thank you Twitter!

A few days ago I went through our twitter feed and downloaded many cool pictures from Bench taken by fans throughout the tour! Thought it would be nice to share some of them on here, and also take a moment to thank the lovely people who come watch the show, leave a comment on Facebook/twitter/email/in…