Programme Set for Mimetic Festival 2014, Running Nov 18-29 at The Vaults

Mimetic Festival 2014's programme has gone live and a wealth of cutting-edge theatre and cabaret will soon be lighting up the dark tunnels of the Vaults. The festival runs Tuesday 18th - Saturday 29th November 2014. Press launch: Monday 17th November, 6.30pm.

Theatre highlights include: fringe favourites Antler Theatre's Where the White Stops (Ideastap Underbelly Award Winner 2013); Kill The Beast's The Boy Who Kicked Pigs (Time Out Critic's Choice); new work-in-progress from award-winning puppet companies Sparkle and Dark and Flabbergast Theatre, including new puppet improv from puppet bad boys Boris and Sergey; and Mimetic bursary-winner Michael Twaits' latest cabaret theatre extravaganza.

In the cabaret room, The Rubyyy Jones (recently featured on The Drag Queens of London, London Live) will be presenting a revue, and Neil Henry will be dazzling audiences with his award-winning magic (sell-out show Edinburgh 2014). Tricity Vogue will be also be at Mimetic with her Songs for Swinging Ukeleles, while Marcus Reeves will be performing pieces from his debut album 'Quicksilver - The Masquerade Macabre' 'injecting heart and humanity into a plastic pop world' Gay Times. Plus there's naked stand-up from Miss Gloria Pearl - 'Funny and genuine [...] feel-good comedy at its best' Broadway Baby, Edinburgh Fringe 2014.

For a fortnight this November, Mimetic Festival comes to Waterloo, popping up in the Vaults with the very best devised, physical and visual theatre, puppetry and cabaret. Now entering its third year, Mimetic Festival has played host to some of the most exciting international companies working in theatre and cabaret today. Across numerous theatre and cabaret spaces, Mimetic 2014 will also run a late-night festival bar featuring cabaret performances and club nights.

Mimetic Festival 2014 will run Tuesday 18th - Saturday 29th November 2014 Tuesday - Saturday from 6.30pm. Bar open from 6.00pm (till late). All performances at The Vaults, Leake Street, London SE1 7NN. Tickets are available from www.the-vaults.org or 0207 620 3364 or boxoffice@the-vaults.org. The Vaults is located on Leake Street, a couple of minutes' walk from Waterloo station (on the Bakerloo, Jubilee, Northern and Waterloo and City lines, and on the mainline rail with various bus lines). For more, follow @MimeticFest.

PROGRAMME:

Humphrey - 18th-19th Nov and 25th-26th Nov, 6,35pm
Meet Humphrey. Small, soft, likes gardening. He's an extraordinary being in an ordinary world.

On Being Yourself But Better - 18th-19th Nov and 25th-26th Nov, 7.30pm
Dark clown, drag and dance combine in this joyful fairground ride as six performers don their finest to flirt with big themes and invite you to do the same.

Miss Glory Pearl: The Naked Stand-Up - 18th Nov, 8.30pm
A no-holds-barred look at the body and our (usually laughable) attitudes towards it.

Where the White Stops - 18th-20th Nov, 9.30pm
Battling against icy blizzards and mythical beasts, Crab leaves the safety of her village to journey across a vast and desolate frozen landscape.

Spencer Jones is The Herbert - 18th Nov, 9.40pm
A daft, physical, clownish character comedy about a man called Herbert alone in his flat.

GoatSolo - 18th-19th Nov and 25th-26th Nov, 9.45pm
Shocked by the return of her imaginary friend, a woman decides she must - once and for all - come of age.

Curioddity - 19th Nov, 7.00pm
A one man cabaret of illusions, deadpan comedy, magic, puppetry & the beautifully bizarre.

The Greatest Liar in All the World - 19th-22nd Nov, 8.00pm
Familia de la Noche return with their five-star, darkly funny sequel to Pinocchio: a rollercoaster ride filled with song, puppetry, physical theatre and clowning.

How a Man Crumbled - 19th-22nd Nov, 8.20pm
A 55 minute piece exploring the works of Daniil Kharms, cutting-up and regurgitating the story of 'The Old Woman'.

The Misdemeanours of Saccharine - 19th-22nd Nov, 8.30pm
Join us for an inconceivable, international, imaginary journey inspired by (a thesaurus) and the likes of Monsieurs Grimm and Dahl.

Holestar presents Sorry I'm a Lady - 19th Nov, 8.30pm
Part theatre and cabaret, Holestar exposes her unconventional showgirl biography through storytelling, belting vocals, original music, humour & occasional lap dance.

The Ruby Darlings Show - 19th Nov, 10.00pm
Born out of a fiery feminist agenda The Ruby Darlings give an outrageously honest yet totally sexy look at life with a vagina.

The Weatherman - 20th-21st Nov, 6.30pm
When he is given a job controlling the world's weather, Kiki Lovechild tries to amuse himself throughout eternity by creating new worlds from his imagination.

Brainchild - 20th-21st Nov, 7.00pm
A ridiculous physical comedy that explores the big questions and comes to some astounding, yet allusive conclusions.

Un Cas de Nostalgie - 20th-22nd Nov and 27th-29th Nov, 9.50pm
Meet Pi. His head in the clouds and his feet firmly half way up in the air, he cannot help but dream.

Boris & Sergey... - 20th-22nd Nov and 27th-29th Nov, 10.00pm
Boris and Sergey, your favourite puppet clown vagabonds, present for your viewing pleasure an hour of improvised delights, featuring guests from Mimetic Festival and the odd audience member or two.

BABY LAME: Don't Call It a Comeback! - 20th Nov, 10.00pm
Join the 6 year old cabaret monstrosity Baby Lame for a punk-horror-drag night of song, dance, film and balls-out performance chronicling her much storied return to the spotlight.

Burlexe/Boylexe - 21st Nov, 8.30pm
Burlexe is an empowering burlesque show inspired by the women who created and perform the art form.

In Our Hands - 22nd Nov, 6.00pm
Using puppetry and visual theatre, In Our Hands tells the story of Alf, a trawler fisherman.

Griffin and Jones: Fooling Themselves - 22nd Nov, 7.00pm
Steve Griffin and Nathan Jones are a pair of grifters, tricksters, conmen and award-winning magicians.

I am Beast - 22nd Nov, 7.30pm
After the death of his wife, an isolated and troubled father realises he has lost his teenage daughter to her own shadowy landscape of dreams and hallucination.

Tricity Vogue: Songs for Swinging Ukeleles - 22nd Nov, 8.30pm
Sporting her trusty ukulele, a vintage three-piece suit and a homburg hat, Tricity invites you to share an hour of her trademark playful wit in this engaging show of original tunes.

Behind the Mask with Marcus Reeves - 24th-26th Nov, 8.30pm
Mechanical minstrel Marcus Reeves delves 'Behind the Mask', performing songs from his critically acclaimed debut album 'Quicksilver - The Masquerade Macabre'.

The Lonely Room - 25th-29th Nov, 6.30pm
Time has stopped. They wait. And wait... and wait... and wait. They wait, surrounded by nothingness and the empty loneliness of their existence.

Pathos - 25th-29th Nov, 6.40pm
Jealousy: the fear of losing your loved one. Funny and colourful in childhood, an unstoppable and eventually violent emotion in some adults.

Neil Henry's IMPOSSIBLE - 25th Nov, 7.00pm
Jaw-on-the-floor, good-God-how-does-he-do-it, brain-frying magic.

The Boy Who Kicked Pigs - 25th-29th Nov, 7.50pm
A dark, hilarious, highly visual and very physical romp through the tale of an evil little boy - a blisteringly funny show adapted from the Tom Baker novel of the same name.

Crazy Glue - 25th-29th Nov, 8.10pm
The messy, sticky, absurdity of marriage told with vocal acrobatics, quirky humour and an evocative 1930's soundtrack.

Marion Deprez is Gorgeous - 25th-29th Nov, 8.20pm
A one-woman physical comedy show that turns the whole concept of 'beauty' on its head.

The Libertine Has Left The Building - 25th-29th Nov, 9.40pm
Caustic cabaret, autobiographical analysis, theatrical theorem collide as the creator of 'Confessions Of A Dancewhore' brings a multimedia feast of a show to Mimetic 2014.

Tatterdemalion - 25th Nov, 9.55pm
In this hilarious, absurd and often magical show that juxtaposes themes of loneliness and belonging with joy and exhilaration we are invited to witness one man's quest for a friend.

Lady Celeste - 26th Nov, 7.00pm
Australian International superstar Lady Celeste Luminary, is back - to relaunch her career like never before.

Nyctophonia - 26th Nov, 10.00pm
We make handcrafted, passionate music after hours in a forest of the imagination, fuelled by bread, wine, cheese and olives.

Anna Lou's Contes D'amour - 27th Nov, 8.30pm
Through her unique brand of indecorous musical storytelling, Cabaret Roulette's very own petite Parisienne powerhouse will teach you everything she has ever learned about love.

The Save Rubyyy Jones Revue - 27th Nov, 10.00pm
A truly neo variety show brought to you as a challenge to face your fears, own your kinks and embrace yourrr Rubyyy Jones.

Divinely Human - 28th-29th Nov, 7.00pm
A puppet sketch-show making big things small with a peek into the hilarious, ridiculous and altogether normal Christmas Day of the divine three.

Misirlou - 28th Nov, 7.00pm
A diva/philosopher comes from the darkness feeling lost looking for her lost lover.

Lady Carol: Lost and Found - 28th-29th Nov, 8.30pm
Lady Carol returns to London with more songs of spirited spite and tales of melancholic mischief.

Rubyyy Jones's Young Feminist Whores! - 29th Nov, 10.00pm
Rubyyy Jones presents a sensational and sexy showcase of her incredible students; otherwise known as Young Feminist Whores.

Programme subject to change -- see mimeticfest.com.

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