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Complicite

July 2024

  • Richard Katz, Kostas Philippoglou and Sarah Slimani in Mnemonic

    The week in theatre: Mnemonic; The Secret Garden; The Herds – review

    Complicité’s extraordinary 1999 play proves a little more forgettable second time round; an al fresco Secret Garden remakes the story in surprising ways; and the team behind Little Amal prepare to take on climate disaster
  • A man of many parts … Khalid Abdalla in Mnemonic at Olivier theatre London.

    Mnemonic review – Complicité’s brainteaser goes back to the future

    Simon McBurney returns to direct his 1999 drama and it still fizzes, even if some of the images are more rewarding than the ideas
  • Groundbreaking … a scene from Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney.

    A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic – in pictures

    Twenty-five years after its first production, Complicité’s play about memory is revived at the National Theatre in London

May 2024

  • Marcello Magni and Simon McBurney in the 2005 revival of A Minute Too Late, which was first performed in 1985.

    The play that changed my life
    The play that changed my life: Complicité’s A Minute Too Late was a matter of life and death

    Our series on transformative theatrical discoveries continues with the moving 1984 show exploring our buttoned-up approach to mortality

April 2023

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, at the Barbican with Amanda Hadingue in the role of Janina.

    The week in theatre: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Berlusconi – review

    Complicité’s masterly take on Olga Tokarczuk’s eco-thriller is unforgettable; Daniel Rigby excels in Fo’s all too timely classic; and Silvio Berlusconi is in dire need of some good tunes

March 2023

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead.

    Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review – a magnificent Complicité creation

    Simon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga Tokarczuk

October 2022

  • Complicite's Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Research Trip to Poland, Simon McBurney, director, and Olga Tokarczuk, writer

    Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

    As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

September 2022

  • Marcello Magni in The Valley of Astonishment, written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne, at the Young Vic in London in 2014.

    Theatre world pays tribute after death of Marcello Magni

    Italian actor, who often worked with his wife Kathryn Hunter, was a co-founder of Complicité, a gifted clown and a voiceover artist for Pingu

December 2021

  • Actor Kathryn Hunter. London 29/11/21

    Observer New Review Q&A
    Actor Kathryn Hunter: ‘I gravitated towards male roles because men are given more interesting things to do’

    The theatre star on the car crash that transformed her life, changing her name for work – and playing all three witches in Joel Coen’s new film of Macbeth

September 2021

  • Getting involved … Fehinti Balogun in Can I Live?

    Can I Live? review – privilege, protest and the climate crisis

    Fehinti Balogun’s show uses hip-hop and spoken word to explore the ways people of colour have been excluded from environmental activism

May 2020

  • ‘Culture is about the health of the nation’ … Simon McBurney of Complicité.

    Lockdown culture
    Simon McBurney: 'Germany understand that in a crisis you need bonds between people'

    As Complicité’s The Encounter goes online, its creator discusses the need to rebuild British culture ‘from the ground up’

September 2019

  • Jerusalem, Mr Burns and Barbershop Chronicles

    Best culture of the 21st century
    The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century

    A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000

June 2019

  • Rachael Young

    Edinburgh festival 2019: 50 theatre, comedy and dance shows to see

    There’s a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here’s our guide to the world’s biggest arts festival

February 2019

  • Marie Burchard and Laurenz Laufenberg in Beware Of Pity by Complicité and the Schaubühne Berlin Ensemble.

    I don't think I've ever been so hurt by a piece of art. People with disability deserve better

    Anthea Williams
    Stage director Anthea Williams walked away from one of Sydney festival’s biggest shows crushed. ‘How disability is understood affects me every day of my life’

March 2018

  • Elexi Walker, Lottie Vallis and Eva Alexander in A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer

    What musical theatre can teach us about how we respond to cancer

    Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
  • Cillian Murphy in Grief Is the Thing With Feathers.

    Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy takes wing

November 2017

  • BFI Screen Epiphanies: Cillian Murphy Introducues "Scarecrow"<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 26: Cillian Murphy poses for photographs before introducing his BFI Screen Epiphany "Scarecrow" at BFI Southbank on October 26, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)

    Cillian Murphy to star in stage version of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers

    Enda Walsh adapts Max Porter’s acclaimed novel about love, art and bereavement for Complicité theatre company’s Irish production

March 2017

  • Danny Huston and Christian Camargo in The Kid Stays In The Picture

    The Kid Stays in the Picture review – from mogul to minor player

    Robert Evans all but disappears in Simon McBurney’s adaptation of the Hollywood producer’s rollercoaster memoir

February 2017

  • Robert Evans with Chinatown poster

    How Robert Evans changed movies for ever – and for the better

  • Beware of Pity by Complicite and Schaubuhne Berlin at the Barbican.

    Beware of Pity review – found in translation

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