ABSTRACT
Although many of the established ‘master’ teachers of mime were white, male and non-disabled, this ‘top end’ cultural dominance conceals the presence of much diversity within the wider field of mime training and practice. This chapter will explore the work of companies, performers and directors within UK mime and physical theatre that sort to give expression to the life experience of those who had previously been marginalised and discriminated against – in relation to gender, class, race/ethnicity and disability. Mime and physical theatre are investigated as important spaces within which performers were able to make their own work and to focus on aspects of their identity through physical representation.
