Mime Radio Show
“Everyone is an artist and theater is soul food—nourishment to help find your greatest gift: your own voice.”
“Passion, Persistence, Poetry and Puns! Find what you love, keep doing it in unexpected zigzag ways and always exercise your humor.”
“When all else fails, you can still laugh! Nobody can stop you.”
--Barbara Leigh.
Barbara Leigh was the co-founder and leader of The Milwaukee Public Theatre with more than 100 original works to her name, and has spent four decades acting, teaching, leading workshops and organizing community projects. After suffering partial paraplegia in a serious accident in 1987, she took on hurt and healing with art, addressing trauma, survival, caregivers, Alzheimer’s, abuse scars and even the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The company was founded as Friends Mime Theatre in 1974, and later changed its name to Milwaukee Public Theatre. Their street theatre style, employing skillful commedia dell’arte clown techniques with music, dance, puppetry, poetry, parades and wildly colorful spectacles of all sorts, was shaped to address the most serious real-life issues facing individuals and communities—issues such as sexual abuse, mental illness, end of life care, HIV/AIDS, bullying, nuclear power, racism and healing.
Milwaukee Public Theatre: Photo Gallery
“Passion, Persistence, Poetry and Puns! Find what you love, keep doing it in unexpected zigzag ways and always exercise your humor.”
“When all else fails, you can still laugh! Nobody can stop you.”
--Barbara Leigh.
Barbara Leigh was the co-founder and leader of The Milwaukee Public Theatre with more than 100 original works to her name, and has spent four decades acting, teaching, leading workshops and organizing community projects. After suffering partial paraplegia in a serious accident in 1987, she took on hurt and healing with art, addressing trauma, survival, caregivers, Alzheimer’s, abuse scars and even the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The company was founded as Friends Mime Theatre in 1974, and later changed its name to Milwaukee Public Theatre. Their street theatre style, employing skillful commedia dell’arte clown techniques with music, dance, puppetry, poetry, parades and wildly colorful spectacles of all sorts, was shaped to address the most serious real-life issues facing individuals and communities—issues such as sexual abuse, mental illness, end of life care, HIV/AIDS, bullying, nuclear power, racism and healing.
Milwaukee Public Theatre: Photo Gallery