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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Vicky Jessop

Acrobats, throat singing and Shakespeare: welcome to the Mongol Khan, London's wildest new theatre production

On the dusty, well-trodden floorboards of Mongolia’s biggest theatre, magic is brewing. Among the props and exposed wires of the Soviet-era building, fantastically dressed actors mill around, waiting their turn to come on.

A woman adorned in strips of glittering fabric and crowned with fox ears smiles obligingly for the camera off stage; nearby hang racks of gorgeous costumes all to be used in the show. The air is thick with anticipation.

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