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 ...

T here's no music, no words, no scenery. Just 35 masks and costumes worn by four performers who act in complete silence, injecting personality and character into everyday objects. On stage, ...

"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 ...

They don’t speak, yet send a deep message to the heart. Those silent messages – of love, of sorrow, of rollicking laughter – have moved audiences all over the world for the past 40 years. The renowned ...

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 ...

How much you enjoy Mummenschanz, the trio of mask and mime artists who opened a week`s run in the Civic Theatre Tuesday night, will depend on how much you can tolerate 90 minutes (including one hefty ...

Almost a half-century after she co-founded Mummenschanz, Floriana Frassetto says the mime troupe’s audiences still give her the energy to perform. She and co-founders Bernie Schürch and Andres Bossard ...