Underbelly fans! It's the 10th Birthday and summer on the Southbank is the BIGGEST YET!
Underbelly have been on the Southbank for 10 years this summer and are celebrating with their biggest programme yet, jam packed with explosive live entertainment.
Underbelly fans! Summer on the Southbank just got BIGGER! They've merged two hugely popular London festivals, Udderbelly Festival and London Wonderground, into one, wham bam, monster festival of affordable live entertainment... UNDERBELLY FESTIVAL!
London International Mime Festival (LIMF) was founded in 1977 by producer, Joseph Seelig, and mime-clown, Nola Rae.
It is the Capital’s longest established international theatre season. Taking place each January, its programme spans the spectrum of contemporary visual performance including live art, physical and circus-theatre, mask, puppetry, movement and object theatre.
Among a host of premieres and artists new to the festival, Mime London are delighted to bring back some of visual theatre’s most admired names in this special year including acrobat-genius Mathurin Bolze (Cie MPTA), Charleroi Danses’ Kiss & Cry and Mossoux Bonté, German Mask-theatre experts Familie Flöz, and Gandini Juggling with a hugely expanded version of its glorious Pina Bausch tribute, Smashed.
Elsewhere there’s surrealist Greek glam live art, manga-inspired drama from Italy, and extraordinary object theatre exploring neuroscience, exile, arson and the Shakespeare authorship debate. And much more!
LIMF is one of the UK’s longest established international theatre festivals, its essentially wordless programme cutting edge and defying categorization.
London Wonderground at Southbank Centre. A playground for the people, leave your real life at the door and step inside...
First launched in 2012, the Wonderground features a packed programme of circus, cabaret and family entertainment, all taking place in our beautiful 1920s Paradiso Spiegeltent. They also present oddities, curiosities and eccentricities including the 60-metre high Star Flyer which gives you an unrivalled view over London's rooftops (if you can bear to keep your eyes open).
A splendid place to sit and while away the summer, stop by for a Pimm's at our Riverside bar, or enjoy a delectable treat from one of the Laughing Stock's delicious eateries.
Underbelly joined forces with Southbank Centre in 2009 to launch Udderbelly Festival, an 8-week extravaganza of comedy, circus and family entertainment inside the famous upside-down purple cow. They've extended the festival every year, and in 2015, the seventh Udderbelly Festival played a whopping 15 weeks on the Southbank. The festival won Best Festival at the London Lifestyle Awards in 2012, and the upside down purple cow is now an iconic and much-anticipated annual fixture on the London skyline.
Underbelly is a UK-based live entertainment company that runs several festivals and events across the country. Founded in 2000 by directors Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood to operate one venue at the Edinburgh Festival, Underbelly has grown to include the Udderbelly and London Wonderground festivals in London, Udderbelly Festival in Hong Kong, The Comedy Hullabaloo in Stratford-Upon-Avon, as well as an ever-growing programme in Edinburgh. Through Underbelly Productions, they also produce and promote live shows for UK and international touring. Underbelly also produces large scale events, most recently including West End Live, Pride in London and the Rugby World Cup Fanzone in Richmond.
In short, Underbelly is all about entertainment. In 2015, over 1.1 million people bought tickets to their shows and attractions and they had over 5 million visitors to their events. The giant upside-down purple cow is now an iconic annual fixture of the London, Edinburgh and Hong Kong skylines.
CircusFest 2016 is back with three weeks of the most spectacular and extraordinary international and UK contemporary circus.
The festival is at Roundhouse, one of the best known venues in London for seeking bold, innovative cultural experiences.
The festival features major world premieres, amazing new productions and street performances from the hottest names in circus. From performances that push the human body to its limits to discussions about the cultural significance of circus today.
Filling the Main Space the award-winning Finnish Race Horse Company bring the UK premiere of Super Sunday that will get your pulse racing and have you gasping for breath.
Next up Britain’s hottest circus company Barely Methodical Troupe fly into the Roundhouse with Kin, the world premiere of their brand new production.
Plus look out for the Take Part Weekend of workshops, learn acrobatics and street dance, aerial skills and the hula hoop.
