Do you believe in Mimes??

Question

Or are they just another government conspiracy and common Myth?

Answer 1

May of '86. We'd skipped class to steal cigarettes from the science teacher's office and smoke them across the street from the school. I remember that day. I remember it well. I remember how happy Dana was; she'd just found out her dad's cancer had been pronounced treatable instead of terminal. I remember the sun shining, and the deep blue of Tina Simmons' Gremlin when she offered to drive us over to the fair that was in town.

We got to the fair and somehow lost Tina. Dana won a cowboy hat from a darts game and was pretending to be the Marlboro Man with her cigarette when it happened. We were surrounded. Mimes everywhere...where they came from, I don't know. One tied me up with an invisible rope and threw me behind a carny's trailer, but I could still see what they were doing to Dana. I could still hear her screams until they had sealed her up entirely in their invisible box, and watched as they climbed their invisible ladders to sit on top of the box and laugh silently as she beat at the sides, desparate to escape. One of them saw me watching, jumped down, and connected an invisible baseball bat to my face.

When I woke up, it was dark and the fair was empty. A rotting caramel apple core was stuck in my hair, and my shoes were missing. I walked six miles home. I never saw Dana again.

Oh yes, I believe in mimes.

Answer 2

Mime supposedly began in the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, perhaps as far back as the third century B.C.E. These mimes were not entirely silent, as we think of mimes today, but the spoken element was minimized. There was usually a chorus, typical of Greek theatre of the time. Themes for Greek mimes, which were often tragedies that had a moral lesson. Stories frequently included fighting, adultery, and various vices. Early mime artists in Greece were called phylakes and included women as well as men. Well-known authors of mimes include Decimus Laberius, Epicharmus, Sophron, Publilius Syrus and Herodas. [1].

Like actors and actresses of today, a mime's fame could bring them the attention of the rich and powerful. The Emperor Justinian married Theodora, a former mimus (mima?)

By the time of the fall of Rome, mimes were performing at banquets and courts all over Europe. Roman mime artists were called mimus or saltator, but the word "mime" by then was often used as a catch-all term for any sort of short dramatic or comedic acted entertainment, sometimes expanding to include sword swallowers and jugglers. Roman mime was called fibula riciniata and was a mix of farce sketch, dancing, singing and acrobatics. Stock characters evolved (stupid husband, greedy pig, foolish old man, devious woman, etc). These developed a non-silent, satirical, and often political comedy that evolved into such theatre genres as the Italian Commedia dell'arte, the dumb show, Masque, and British pantomime. The most well known exponents of these classical roots at the begining of the twentieth century of these traditions are the Italian couple Dario Fo and Franca Rame and the San Francisco Mime Troupe in America.

Answer 3

Mimes are totally a government conspiracy - isn't everything?

Answer 4

Dolphines make better mimes

Answer 5

All they are is people who don't say anything - look a bit like dead clowns - and act like they're playing pictionary.

Answer 6

Yes because I saw them.

Answer 7

yes

Answer 8

I don't believe in them, but this is just my opinion. Do you believe in them?

Answer 9

no they r just ppl that think they have a talent for holding air

Answer 10

yeah but i've never seen one in person