When a topic is hard to talk about, a stage can provide a space to place it, turn it over, and unpick it until it makes sense. For Aoife Kennan, performance has provided a way of talking honestly and creatively about self-harm.
Image credit: Photo of John-Paul Zaccarini, by Susan Schwartzberg.
Image: Helen Lannaghan and Joseph Seelig, co-Directors, London International Mime Festival (LIMF).
For nearly fifty years, the end of winter has seen artists slink silently onto the stages of London’s theatres. This is the time of London’s International Mime Festival (LIMF), when dancers, circus performers and physical theatre performers take centre stage.