Waiting for Biffy

Waiting for Biffy is a show for listed as For ages 7+ Clowning/mime, Comedy. Don't let the word "mime" scare you. My children look forward to these shows each year. Last year, Dean Hatton and Kirsten Stephen's show "Silent Poetry 2" was #4 on Tommy's top 10 list. Mime is cool.

This year's show is fresh and fun. The classic bits are there-the chase, the escalator, the "mime hits a wall". But the addition of Renee Howard allows for more play. Trios and duos alternate with solo works. Using their bodies and faces and every bit of the Jungle stage they told stories of porta-potties, uncertain love, and learning to fly. Stephens' solo romp through the sensory-overload of the State Fair. (I'm convinced that it was the Great Minnesota Get-together. ) Howard as a bird hatching was beautiful. Stretching and contracting, dancing and arching, speeding up and slowing down, she became the bird.

"There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot." -John Cage