Listings: After 5pm, Physical theatre

Tales of biological clocks on snooze, lives packed in boxes and cities in bags; Six women of different ages and at different stages of their lives, explore what it means to age. Growing ambitions and shrinking pensions to career changes and dementia; Fringe First winners The Paper Birds present their visually stunning 10…

International Theater Ensemble (Taiwan and USA). Poetic expression of Nikolai Gogol's classic in the era of internet technology. Multimedia cross-border performance. Original combination of Chinese theatrical traditions and music with modern European physical theatre and contemporary projection technologies. Combines…

Manic Chord Theatre. Combining a raw, energised and wordy playfulness Manic Chord presents a darkly comic and physical tale. Hidden within a laboratory three scientists set out to create a machine which can extract thoughts. In the process these scientists become the subjects of their own experiment, unearthing the…

Adam Oliver and Zuma Puma are Almond Roca. Adam Oliver and Zuma Puma lead you on an epic journey. Witness sacred comedy of almonds unfolding in surreal, super-fun and insanely entertaining love festival. The Lost Cabaret. Find it. 'An absolute blast!' ★★★★ (ThreeWeeks). www.pay-what-you-want.info. Ages 18+.

The American High School Theatre Festival. Earth's seven billion people are outnumbered a hundred million to one. Funny, beautiful, intriguing, perplexing; bodies and language evoke the warlike, reproductive, political lives of ants. Foremost entomologists E.O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler have created some of…

The Lincoln Company. Spurt of Blood, The Cenci and The Seashell and the Clergyman are drawn together to create an experimental event that layers French surrealism, physical theatre and contemporary farce, creating its very own Theatre of Cruelty. It explores the anguish sheathed within Artaud's mind, identifying…

Evi Stamatiou. The statue in crisis… In the June 2011 debate on whether to return the Ancient Parthenon marbles to Greece, David Cameron tells Parliament that 'Britain has no intention to lose its marbles'. In July 2012, he announces to the House of Commons Liaison Committee that contingency plans were being hatched to…

Cinderella. Revolution. Who knew two ideas could be so compatible? A young woman breaks a mould she didn’t realise she was confined to and finds a new way to tell the world’s most famous fairy tale. Aisling Kiely presents a funny, thought-provoking, sexily-skewed retelling of Cinderella. Feminist burlesque, it’s a…

From the red centre of Australia comes a comedy of circus and romance, loved by children and adults alike. A quirky tale of Sarita and Mr Kiko and their love affair with circus, told through physical theatre, clowning, circus acts, strongwoman feats and film. ‘Cook and Mason both excel at physical theatre … funny…

Apt. 502. We are Apt. 502, a theatre company based out of New York City. We came together as friends and collaborators who shared a passion for experimental theatre. We are currently training at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Dear Friend, is a play about a man who escapes his mundane life in order to discover what it…

Soho Theatre & the Mason Sisters at PBJ. Eight shows back-to-back, starting the day from scratch, each show will be built from the best of the previous, taking shape through the day to form a completed eighth show. 'For those jaded by the pedestrian bilge that litters the comedy landscape, Doctor Brown is good for…

The American High School Theatre Festival. Over the centuries, shoes have enjoyed a colourful and controversial history. How they were made and who wore the shoes can, curiously, reveal a lot about a person. Shoes have also been the subject of numerous children's stories, Cinderella being the most famous and widely…

Rush Productions. Enchanted by one another but scared to share the dark secrets of their past, a boy and girl who grew up too fast retreat into a childhood den full of surprises, stories and the unexpected. In this unusual, changing landscape, love is found only by those willing to look for it in the shadows. Inspired…

Bill Bowers. Join us for this fun and unflinching look at the life and mimes of Bill Bowers. It Goes Without Saying takes the audience on a scenic tour of Bill's life thus far: growing up gay in the wilds of Montana, his outrageous jobs as a performer, studying with Marcel Marceau, and the whirlwind of working on…

World Premiere: Old Earth has nothing left for us, and so it is time for a new beginning. Cross galaxies, traverse light years and find yourself in a world where you can be the centre of your own universe. Welcome to New Earth. Never look back. Vela, the revered and celebrated architect of this new society, has recently…

Circle of Eleven and Assembly. Leo, the anti-gravity show, returns for an unprecedented third Fringe run! Winner of the Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh Award 2011, a runaway hit at Fringe 2012 and now an international phenomenon. 'A must-see, absolutely brilliant!' (ThreeWeeks). All ages.

Hypocrite: person who creates a false appearance of virtue/religion or acts in contradiction of their stated beliefs. Theatre Oikos, in their sixth visit to the Fringe, provide some solutions to Shakespeare’s problem play. There’s comedy, tragedy and a love story but ultimately it’s a comment on our attempts to…

Resuscitate Theatre. This morning Gregor woke up and felt different. She has changed. With a need to provide for her family, what can she do? She must go to work. But her body doesn't function the way it used to, and she just can't make it out the door. Will she be able to depend on her family to support her the way…

Honest Arts Production Company (Ireland). Actor Pius McGrath tells of the journey a young man takes to find his place through sexual exploits and vicarious lifestyle. Approaching 30, William MacCumhaill reflects on his life so far, considering the influence his male role models had, and recalling the outrageous…

Forbidden cake, a sunset remembered in gouache, and a pigeon that was really an owl. Inspired by real conversations, No Place Like celebrates the everyday experiences and lifelong memories of an older generation living in care homes. As playful and poetic as the voices that inspired it, this new, devised piece asks how we…

Bear Pit Theatre. Somewhere in London, there is a bustling restaurant, and in that restaurant there is a table with a drawer and in that drawer are hundreds of notes, scribbled and hidden by diners over the years, on old receipts, scraps of paper, napkins and menus. When the drawer is opened a fluttering maelstrom of…