Mimetic 2014 is proud to announce that Michael Twaits, the winner of the Mimetic 2014
audience bursary, will be performing his cutting-edge theatre/cabaret show The Libertine Has
Left the Building at Mimetic 2014 from 25th-29th November.
Since Michael Twaits’ West End hit Confessions of a Dancewhore – extremely inventive, What’s
On Stage – he has headlined at the Soho Theatre and has appeared in film and television
(Dracula, NBC, and internationally-acclaimed short film What You Looking At?), and is Finger in
the Pie cabaret’s resident host. Now, he returns with powerful new piece The Libertine Has Left
the Building, which explores the concept of reinvention in an evening of caustic cabaret,
autobiographical analysis and theatrical theorem.
The Mimetic Awards – new this year – will celebrate the best of the festival in a variety of
categories, from Best Physical Theatre/Cabaret to Best Work-in-Progress (whose winner will be
offered a slot at next year’s festival). These awards will be judged by a prestigious independent
panel of theatre and cabaret specialists, including the New Diorama Theatre’s artistic director
David Byrne and Total Theatre assessor Alex Brenner, and will be assessed with the help of
reviews from award partner reviewers including Civilian Theatre, Litro, London City Nights, The
Public Reviews, Savage, The Theatre Tourist, Theatrefullstop and Views from the Gods.
For a fortnight this November, Mimetic Festival comes to Waterloo, popping up in the Vaults
with the very best devised, physical and visual theatre, puppetry and cabaret. Now entering its
third year, Mimetic Festival has played host to some of the most exciting international companies working in theatre and cabaret today. Across numerous theatre and cabaret spaces,
Mimetic 2014 will also run a late-night festival bar featuring cabaret performances and club
nights.
Tickets are available from
www.the-vaults.org
0207 620 3364
[email protected].