One of Floriana Frassetto’s favorite parts of a Mummenschanz performance is at intermission. It is then that the co-founder of the 45-year-old Swiss mask troupe goes into the audience wearing a box on ...

"If you see some of the old photographs … we had nothing to start with. So we went to look for things we would find on the street and recycle them," Mummenschanz co-founder Floriana Frassetto ...

Mummenschanz's original founders (from left) Andres Bossard, Floriana Frassetto and Bernie Schurch. Her experimental Swiss mime troupe took Broadway by storm in the 1970s. Now the masked performers ...

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It’s an unlikely Cinderella story: Three experimental mimes who liked playing with garbage began performing in Paris in 1972 under the name Mummenschanz, and by 1977 they were starring on Broadway. On ...

The comic tropes of Mummenschanz are by now so universal that even a 4-year-old child can understand them — and laugh out loud at the surreal, silent antics of the masked, black-suited and barefoot ...