Lovely nightmares from Figurentheater Tubingen

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Salto.Lamento, by pioneering German company Figurentheater Tubingen, combines adult puppetry with cool jazz, opening with a graceful, life-sized Miss Havishamish biddy floating on. Her hat lifts, revealing a Mexican Day Of The Dead skull.

Over the next hour the stage fills with stick-controlled crones, witches, devils, plus a horse, a legless sheep and a fussy monastic figure who insists on having music played when he sweeps up.
The skill of chief puppeteer Frank Soehnle is second-to-none. The way he manipulates his charges is so outstanding that even in repose they seem somehow alive. The tiny beckoning claw-like hands are frighteningly realistic and the silent, expressive faces speak volumes. The result is a kind of Fantasia for grown-up goths, with Beelzebub on lead vocals.

In the end natural order is restored. The old crone lays an egg that produces new life and Satan’s hind-quarters find a more appropriate home, allowing the sheep to shimmy about. The stuff of nightmares perhaps but lovely nightmares.
Until 14 January (020 7930 3647, www.mimefest.co.uk).

London International Mime Festival: Salto.Lamento
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