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Simon McBurney

July 2024

  • A man of many parts … Khalid Abdalla in Mnemonic at Olivier theatre London.

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

  • Groundbreaking … a scene from Mnemonic, conceived by Simon McBurney.

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

June 2024

  • Simon McBurney

    On my radar
    On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights

    The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead

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

  • Figures in Extinction [1.0]: ‘angry and incredibly moving’.

    Nederlands Dans Theater NDT1 review – a cri de coeur about the climate crisis

    Sadler’s Wells, London
    In a strong triple bill, sublimely danced, Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s Figures in Extinction [1.0] stands out as a powerful portrait of nature under threat
  • Sweeping curves … Luca-Andrea Tessarini in Figures in Extinction [1.0] by Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney

    Nederlands Dans Theater review – a moving menagerie from a world in crisis

    Figures in Extinction [1.0], a Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney collaboration, is the climax to a triple bill featuring excellent technique and film noir atmosphere
  • 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

December 2022

  • The Pale Blue Eye. Christian Bale as Augustus Landor in The Pale Blue Eye. Cr. Scott Garfield/Netflix © 2022

    The Pale Blue Eye review – baffled, beardy Christian Bale in gruesome murder yarn

    Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet

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 2021

  • Dreamlike … Siberia.

    Siberia review – Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara on fine freaky form

  • Getting involved … Fehinti Balogun in Can I Live?

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

October 2020

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    Wolfwalkers review – wolves take on Cromwell in bold Irish history tale

    Seventeenth-century Kilkenny is the setting for this beautifully made animation about history, heritage and family

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’

March 2019

  • András Schiff with the OAE at the Royal Festival Hall.

    The week in classical: András Schiff, OAE; The Magic Flute – review

    Over two evenings, András Schiff and the OAE made Brahms and Schumann sound like new

August 2017

  • Kirill Serebrennikov

    Cate Blanchett joins stars urging Russia to drop 'flimsy' charges against director

    Leading arts figures sign petition calling on Moscow’s public prosecutor to end investigation into Kirill Serebrennikov

July 2017

  • Stuart Jeffries

    Music blog
    Opera's Faustian pact: is a cinema director's vision what the genre needs?

    Stuart Jeffries
    Sofia Coppola’s La Traviata was slated on its Rome premiere. But will a cinema audience have an entirely different perspective? Stuart Jeffries wonders whether an outsider’s eye is an advantage for an art form increasingly consumed outside the opera house

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

  • Danny Huston in The Kid Stays in the Picture

    The Kid Stays in the Picture review – Robert Evans gets the Citizen Kane treatment

February 2017

  • Robert Evans with Chinatown poster

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

    With The Godfather and Chinatown, Robert Evans revolutionised the movie industry. Now, Simon McBurney is staging the mogul’s scandalous memoir, The Kid Stays in the Picture. They talk about art, life and America
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