"If you see some of the old photographs … we had nothing to start with. So we went to look for things we would find on the street and recycle them," Mummenschanz co-founder Floriana Frassetto ...
T here's no music, no words, no scenery. Just 35 masks and costumes worn by four performers who act in complete silence, injecting personality and character into everyday objects. On stage, ...
Mummenschanz's original founders (from left) Andres Bossard, Floriana Frassetto and Bernie Schurch. Her experimental Swiss mime troupe took Broadway by storm in the 1970s. Now the masked performers ...
They don’t speak, yet send a deep message to the heart. Those silent messages – of love, of sorrow, of rollicking laughter – have moved audiences all over the world for the past 40 years. The renowned ...
How much you enjoy Mummenschanz, the trio of mask and mime artists who opened a week`s run in the Civic Theatre Tuesday night, will depend on how much you can tolerate 90 minutes (including one hefty ...
What a mouth on that guy! A thick, round tubular hole. A mouth disconnected from other parts of the face. A mouth that glides and dances, almost shouting, almost whistling, almost whispering but ...
World-renowned Swiss performance troupe MUMMENSCHANZ announced today plans for a special three-week holiday engagement in New York City at The Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, from December 20 ...