6:30pm
A VV story, in three acts. (15 minutes)
I : THE HORSEFLY
The flow of one shot cinema (pretty much), this is the beginning like when you open the book and start reading the words - except visually
II : THE CITY
The story of the four towers.
III : THE CAFE
Someone was sitting in the cafe. There’s a zenith television flickering up under the ceiling corner. And then, the ending.
Zoë McWhinney, have recently won the internationally renowned festival Clin d’ Oeil’s Sign Slam championships in Reims, and as a British Sign Language (BSL) poet, was shortlisted in the nationally prestigious Forward Poetry Prize 2026
The brainchild between Mime and Sign Language, Visual Vernacular (a.k.a. VV) is a kinetic, cinematic storytelling performance involving everything from the knee, waist and up. VV needs only a small area of the stage to perform great silent visual epics, akin to sign language.
Part of Physical Fest 2026, Tmesis Theatre's international physical theatre festival, for full programme go to