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From wedding party plans going hilariously wrong to famous puppet death scenes, from tales of the flesh to the secret life of polystyrene and a museum coming spookily alive at night, LIMF 2023 brings premieres of contemporary circus-theatre, puppetry, live art, extreme dance and non text-based drama from near and far. A new show from UK artists String Theatre explores themes of climate change, and once again Gandini Juggling dazzle. There are first British showings of work from LIMF favourites Peeping Tom and Familie Flöz, Bill celebrates his 44th, David Glass directs an edgy Anglo/Italian co-production and Theatre Re and Told by an Idiot reprise their most recent hit shows, both LIMF co-commissions. Belgium’s current stunning creativity in physical and visual theatre is marked in four separate productions.

Complementing the live performance programme will be the screening of a remarkable 1927 Todd Browning classic with live music accompaniment, and throughout the festival period you can watch a free-to-view recording of Jos Houben’s and Marcello Magni’s LIMF 2016 hit, Marcel. All this plus the festival’s usual range of workshops and master classes. Our grateful thanks to everyone involved in creating this year’s festival, and to its core funder, Arts Council England, which has supported us from our first edition in 1977. Also to our partner venues: Barbican, Jacksons Lane, LAMDA, Little Angel Theatre, Sadler’s Wells, Shoreditch Town Hall, The Place and Wilton’s Music Hall.