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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

‘The boundary between fact and fiction is extremely blurry': Simon McBurney as Mnemonic returns to the theatre

Mnemonic, conceived and directed by Complicité Artistic Director, Simon McBurney, is at the Olivier, National Theatre until 10 August 2024

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The week in classical: The Magic Flute; Manon Lescaut review – the trials of love

The anarchy and invention of Simon McBurney’s Mozart production triumphs as ENO plays on; Puccini gets a rough ride at English Touring Opera. Plus, the pros and cons of Radio 3’s new schedule

The Guardian - UK

The Magic Flute review – ENO’s revival is a peach of wit, wisdom and laughs

There’s never a dull moment in Simon McBurney’s ingenious production, with Sarah Tynan and the ENO orchestra in fine fettle and a demented dalek-like Queen of the Night

The Guardian - UK

Lessons by Ian McEwan review – chance, memory and the road not taken

Actor Simon McBurney narrates the tale of how a sexual relationship between a teenage boy and his piano teacher changes the course of his life

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

Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn 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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Midwinter magic: Robert Macfarlane on the enduring power of The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel, newly adapted for a BBC audio series, has enthralled generations of children and writers with its folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

Marcello Magni obituary

Italian actor and co-founder of the theatre company Complicité who was admired for the physicality of his performances

The Guardian - UK

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

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