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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Tour Chronicles: Fries Straat Festival Holland, 30-31 May 2015 (Updates)
The girls had a great time in Holland, despite being stuck in Antwerp for hours with two toddlers in the van and then some rain in Holland! They managed to perform 3 out of 4 shows, and apparently the kids were the most amazing travel partners! And the usual monkeying around! We also received some…
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Tour Chronicles: Fries Straat Festival Holland, 30-31 May 2015
We are on our way to Fries Straat Festival in the north of Holland! We’ve never been there before, but the program and the festival seem very exciting! We’re really looking forward to all the music and circus, especially Circus Ronaldo! We were also in Holland last week at the Kunsten Op Straat Festival! We received…
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Face paint & Monsters: End of term community day at Milton Gardens
One of the things I love the most about my job is organising the community days. If you’ve never been to one of ours, you’re really missing out on a big dose of instant happiness. The focus this term was to let the children come up with their own routines, learn how to channel their…
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Tour Chronicles: Villarreal & Toledo, 1 – 2 May 2015
Silvia hates to fly – which workouts for her, as more often than not the whole cast (and sometimes their little ones) climb into our big old van and drive cross country to get to gigs. Earlier this May, the tour started off with a flight to Spain and taking the van was not an…
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Photos and thoughts from Bench rehearsals
Director Lina Johansson reflects from the rehearsals of Bench: The idea for Bench started like a small simple frame for a show – a set made as a park bench – allowing us to plant the show in the reality of where it is performed, in a park, street, square and use the reality of…
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Meet our new performers!
We’re in the midst of the production of our new show Bench, directed by our Artistic Director Lina Johansson. a show about the everyday dance of life, our urban landscape, and a cavalcade of characters who come and go; viewed through the eyes of a woman who observes, makes friends, confronts or ignores the people…
