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"Santa Joe! Best Santa Ever! Santa Joe did such a great job. He stayed in character from the beginning. Everyone enjoyed him. Santa Joe played the part very well. We definitely will be seeing him again. Thank you for making our event even better!"

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"Loved the magical atmosphere, the close up experience of seeing it was amazing, interacted with his audience so well."

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"Jay was captivating & entertaining, he knew how to control a room full of rowdy kids and kept their attention. His tricks were brilliant !"

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"I reached out to Jessica less then 48 hours before our event. The forecast was for rain and we had our entertainment cancel. She responded quickly and also asked me about the event to see if she could help with the theme within her performance. She arrived in plenty of time before the agreed upon time and was professional and personable upon arrival and set up. With her stilts, she rose above our vendors and customers with a beautiful festive costume and she brought sunshine and smiles to a rainy and gloomy day. She was attentive as well to our vendors and customers, asking if they would like to take pictures with her and our vendors and customers were delighted to meet and get to know Jessica. I highly recommend Jessica as a top notch performer who will delight any audience with both her talents as a performer and also with her charming personality."

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"The first time I saw Mimirichi, last year at the Edinburgh Fringe, I knew I would have to put them at the core of my fiendish and cunning plan for world domination. Mimirichi would leave everyone weak with laughter and begging me for more of the fun, and, of course, I would be a benign autocrat, sending Mimirichi out on a world-wide mission to sponsor their own brand of warm fuzziness and community spirit. In this cold, competitive world Mimirichi liberates hearts and minds and promotes participation and collaboration. The awful thing is that they are only at the Riverside Studios for TWO nights (until 1st July)! Please, please, rush down to Hammersmith and secure tickets for yourself, all your family (especially menopausal aunts and grumpy old men), your evil-minded neighbours, your traffic wardens and rouge traders, your bank manager and your boss. The four-man creative team at the heart of the mad, mad world of Mimirichi are superb physical performers who start off with some simple slapstick and build to a breathtaking break-dancing finale. But their secret lies in their generosity and the way they engage us with their world. This is a place where the imagination can transform paper into anything we want it to be and half of the fun is the delight in collaborating with them to make these transformations happen. It is a clown theatre for young and old alike, because it's full of the familiar and everyday. Mimirichi's Paper World is peopled with recognizable characters. There's the little guy with the broom overwhelmed by litter bugs on the rampage. And perhaps it's the same voracious paper-munching clown evolving into a despot who gets himself crowned with pomp and circumstance, and, to push the point home, also devours handbags and jackets from among the audience. I guarantee that by the end of the 85-minute show you will be shouting, screaming, pelting each other with paper, passing great swathes of the stuff back and forth and even eager to step onto the stage and be transformed into a goal-keeper for a paper football penalty or a beauty queen. At the core of this age-old humour there is an odd but recognizable logic at work, an absurd logic, or even illogical logic, perhaps, but once we accept the rules it all makes perfect sense (something like when Charlie Chaplin's starving tramp cooks his boots and eats them with perfect table manners and social etiquette). Mimirichi's gags are reminiscent of these extended comic scenarios from the Commedia lazzi and the silent movies. For example, a man desperate to find a public urinal is given increasingly complicated directions by a street cleaner in which each round of mimed instructions seems to take the longed for relief further away on a journey that includes swimming and punting across a river. Mimirichi put us in touch with a part of ourselves we don't pay much attention to these days. They belong to a long tradition of European clowning that includes the great zannis of Commedia dell'Arte, Chaplin and Keaton, Max Wall, Mayall and Edmondson and so on. This is an eternal and universal form of clowning, the carnivalesque, the Lords of Misrule, rather than the sanitized comic turns fed to children in 20th century circuses. In days gone by, this type of carnival event was considered dangerous by princes and municipalities, so that the travelling performers where often borderline outlaws. Happily, Mimirichi are completely legit, but they still can show us a few things that authoritarian rulers feared: that what usually passes for logic is suspect, and that a creative and imaginative response can present alternative solutions to traditions we take for granted. Perhaps, we should send them to the G8 Summit. If you cannot make it down to the Riverside Studios tonight go instead to a tattooist and have MIMIRICHI inscribed on your forehead, so that you will recognize their name should they come to a venue close to you at a future date."

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"Amazing entertainment for the night, kept everyone very happy and brought the spirits up wonderfully. Definitely recommend"

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"Thank you so much for making my boy birthday a special one"

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"“If you’re looking for a Fire Eater you can’t go wrong with Ed. He is professional, extremely safety conscious and has a look that delivers on both the stage or in front of the lens!” "

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"Absolutely love our Caricature drawing!!! Amazing talent!"

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"We stumbled upon this Wizard informally while out for the night, performing some amazing magic and tricks. I was captivated, amazed, in awe...just fantastic. My brain still hurts trying to figure out how he did it. Keep up the incredible work!"

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"Rachelle was nothing short of wonderful. She was quick to respond and was available. She was kind and sweet and the kids loved her as much as the mom did! She was insanely busy the night before and day after and still was excited for my daughter's birthday in between big events. Each child had their face painted and they all LOVED it. She is creative and extremely talented. I plan to use no one else except Rachelle for further gatherings. I will always recommend her moving forward."

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"Saw him recently at a 5 year old's birthday party. A natural entertainer who kept a room full of kids, and their parents, in stitches for the best part of an hour. A well as being a decent close-up magician, and a great ventriloquist he is also a genuinely funny chap. Great fun."

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"We have had Jamie Zeus Honda for my daughter’s 8th birthday party and I can highly recommend him! He is a superb magician and had kids and adults all amazed from start to end. We have gasped and laughed many times! Thank you Jamie for making Hannah’s birthday so magical!"

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"We hired Jay to do roving magic for my birthday party with about 30 adults. Even from the initial point of contact he has continued to be incredibly professional and super easy to work with - replying and responding promptly to all of my messages and requests. Jay was definitely the highlight of the night, and I am convinced that he has real magic! I was left speechless and all of my guests were absolutely floored, we couldn’t believe our eyes!! He wowed everyone with his vast repertoire of amazing tricks including card tricks, coin tricks, even a bit of fire magic. He made everyone laugh and has a great entertaining personality perfect for any type of party. Will definitely be hiring him again for our next event and I would highly recommend him to anyone. Thank you again Jay!"

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"Tristan is the best magician you will ever witnessed! He performs unbelievable tricks with a great charisma!"

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