Nola Rae (London)
„Upper Cuts“
Fotocredit: Jyri Kuru
Upper Cuts is a collection of Nola Rae’s very best and funniest sketches.
Nola Rae was born in Sydney and immigrated to London in 1963.
She trained at the Royal Ballet School in London danceding professionally at Malmö Stadsteater and Tivoli Pantomime Theatre in Copenhagen, before turning to mime and studying with Marcel Marceau in Paris.
She was a founder member of the French based International Research Troupe Kiss, co-founded Friends Roadshow with Jango Edwards, and was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Company.
Upper Cuts is a collection of Nola Rae’s very best and funniest sketches.
Fotocredit: Jyri Kuru
Nola Rae was born in Sydney and immigrated to London in 1963.
She trained at the Royal Ballet School in London danceding professionally at Malmö Stadsteater and Tivoli Pantomime Theatre in Copenhagen, before turning to mime and studying with Marcel Marceau in Paris.
She was a founder member of the French based International Research Troupe Kiss, co-founded Friends Roadshow with Jango Edwards, and was a member of the Bristol Old Vic Company.
In 1974 she founded the London Mime Theatre with Matthew Ridout, with whom she has worked ever since.
Since the premier of her first solo show at the Nancy Festival in 1975 she has toured her work to 68 countries.
She was the instigator of the London International Mime Festival, which is now in its 40th edition.
Current London Mime Theatre productions are Elizabeth’s Last Stand, directed by Simon McBurney, Mozart Preposteroso and Exit Napoleon Pursued by Rabbits, directed by John Mowat.
Nola also specialises in adapting and directing plays for visual performance by clowns.
These include: The House of Bernarda Alba, which won Sweden’s Humour Prize in 1996, Miss Julie, The Wild Duck, The Three Musketeers and Ben Hur.
She also gives international workshop seminars in mime and clowning titled “The Clown Speaks Without Words” and “Broaden Your Mime” and has been the tenor Rolando Villazon’s movement consultant for his versions of Massenet’s Werther, and Donizetti’s Elisir d’Amore and Viva La Mamma.
She will be performing Mozart Preposteroso in Salzburg for Mozartwoche 2019
Over the years Nola has made numerous television appearances.and she has been the subject of two documentaries : BBC Arena and Meridian Television’s The Pier.
Nola has been awarded the Charlie Rivel Medal for Comedy at the Festival of Amandola, Total Theatre’s Lifetime Achievement Award and she was inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame in the USA. Elizabeth’s Last Stand was awarded best solo show of 2000 by Venue Magazine. Nola was awarded an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) by Her Majesty the Queen for her services to drama and to mime in 2008.
Press:
The Stage:
If all mimes could begin to measure up to the calibre of Nola Rae, what a popular art it would be
Daily Express
Miss Rae is decidedly one of the most brilliant and funny women on the stage.
Birmingham Post
“Nola Rae has that rare power of seeming to exaggerate wildly - but the result is hilarious or moving and always exactly right. Don’t miss seeing her.
The Bath Chronicle
The sublime Nola Rae makes a very welcome return to the Ustinov this week in Upper Cuts
She is a national treasure; you have until Saturday to catch her show.
The Melbourne Herald
In decades of theatre going I have not seen a more entertaining mime...
Der Abend, Berlin:
Artistically she is in a league of her own.
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