Snow Days and Plane Delays: An Evening of Holiday Mime 2010

Is it really “the most wonderful time of the year”? For two weekends over Christmas and New Year’s, The Mime Company attempts to find out.

With their latest production, Snow Days and Plane Delays: An Evening of Holiday Mime, The Mime Company returns to explore the triumphs and travails of the holiday season in a series of short plays without words. From the fantastical—a living strand of dysfunctional blinking lights—to the mundane—the indignities of holiday air travel—to the quietly tragic—a touching rendering of “The Little Match Girl”—The Mime Company challenges preconceptions about the art of mime while offering a fresh take on this unique time of year.

Snow Days and Plane Delays ran December 22 through January 2 2010 at Studio BE in Lakeview with performances on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Day. For The Mime Company’s fans and new initiates alike, Snow Days and Plane Delays proved to be an enchanting way to share in the holiday experience.

Orpheus and Eurydice

The Mime Company’s newest work, Orpheus and Eurydice, premieres at City Lit Theater’s “The Art of Adaptation,” its third annual three-day juried festival of world premiere short pieces of non-dramatic literature adapted for the stage.

In Orpheus and Eurydice an ensemble of eight performers exemplifies a mimetic approach to adapting literature. Embodying in one story moments of the most profound joy and human sorrow, the ensemble portrays a joyous wedding, a solemn funeral and a devastating response to grief, through action and gesture alone.

Witness a visual re-telling of Ovid’s ancient tale of how great joy gave way to untimely loss, motivating one of the most ambitious and terrifying journeys in literature, Orpheus’ desperate descent into Hell to recover his lost love, portrayed through the unique approach of The Mime Company ensemble.