Renowned international touring company Complicité’s world premiere production of Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the new stage adaptation of Nobel Prize-winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, will play Belgrade Theatre Coventry’s Main Stage from 18 to 22 April 2023. The venue is also one of the production’s co-producing partners.
‘One to admire but not quite to love’: Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead – Touring ★★★★
A Complicite show is event theatre. Previous works such as A Disappearing Number, An Encounter and The Master and Margarita are locked in a pantheon of the great works of my lifetime. So, it’s no surprise to learn that I admired their latest work Drive Your Plow Over The Bones of The Dead immeasurably. What I didn’t do, was fall for it.
‘Innovative & intriguing piece of theatre making’: CAN I LIVE – Complicité (Online review)
The twin themes of social justice and climate activism are explored in this piece from Fehinti Balogun/Complicité.
NEWS: Clint Dyer is appointed deputy artistic director of the National Theatre
The National Theatre has announced that Clint Dyer has been appointed deputy artistic director. He will work closely with Rufus Norris, director and joint chief executive, and Emily McLaughlin, director of new work, to support and shape the NT’s creative output.
20 of the things that inspired, moved, amused & delighted John Chapman in 2020
I’ve selected 20 of the things that inspired, moved, amused and delighted, which have pushed the boundaries of what it possible and continued to fly the flag for theatre in the UK.
‘It places sound firmly front & centre’: THE ENCOUNTER – Complicite (Online review)
Simon McBurney performs this stupendous and extraordinary solo show from Complicite. Gareth Fry and Pete Malkin’s soundscape is nothing short of a triumph.
NEWS: Bristol Old Vic announces streamed shows including A Monster Calls & The Grinning Man
Bristol Old Vic has announced the first three of five titles that will be streamed on YouTube as part of the city-wide lockdown lifeline initiative Bristol Arts Channel.
NEWS: The Wardrobe Ensemble follows Education in the West End with Pelican Daughters in Edinburgh
After they make their West End debut with the transfer of 1990s-set Education Education Education, award-winning company The Wardrobe Ensemble conclude this summer with a return to the Edinburgh Fringe and their brand-new, contemporary tale The Last of the Pelican Daughters.
‘Combines bravura acting with a battery of visual effects’: GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS – Barbican Theatre
Enda Walsh’s adaptation of Max Porter’s contemporary classic gets the big-stage treatment, starring Cillian Murphy. With mixed results.
NEWS: Complicite tours Pacifist’s Guide, revives McBurney’s The Encounter
Complicité programme for 2018 will include a reimagined version of Bryony Kimmings’ musical A Pacificist’s Guide to the War on Cancer and the return of the company’s multi award-winning one-man show The Encounter starring artistic director Simon McBurney, which will have a new three-week run at London’s Barbican from mid-April.
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE – Royal Court
The beauty of fiction is that its stories have both compelling shape and deep meaning — they are dramas in which things feel right and true and real. The trouble with real life is that it’s the opposite: it is messy, frequently shapeless and often meaningless.
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE – Royal Court
The beauty of fiction is that its stories have both compelling shape and deep meaning — they are dramas in which things feel right and true and real. The trouble with real life is that it’s the opposite: it is messy, frequently shapeless and often meaningless.
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE – Royal Court
Bringing the memoir of Hollywood Legend Robert Evans to the stage was always going to be a challenge. How to do justice to the sweep of the story, from lowly women’s clothing salesman to tinseltown mover and shaker?
NEWS: Cast announced for Complicite’s The Kid Stays in the Picture at Royal Court
Cast is announced today for the premiere of Complicite’s new play The Kid Stays in the Picture, based on the life of legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans and adapted from his memoir, which premieres at the Royal Court Theatre in March.
NEWS: Sonia Friedman nominated Producer of the Year for third year, Full Stage Awards shortlists
Industry newspaper The Stage, the world’s oldest theatre publication, has announced the shortlist for its annual industry awards, celebrating success within the performing arts. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony held on 27 January 2017 at the West End’s Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child producer Sonia Friedman (pictured, photo by Alex Brenner) is shortlisted for …
REVIEW ROUND-UP: A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer at the National Theatre
This new Complicite musical by Bryony Kimmings, looking at life when you have been diagnosed with cancer, runs at the National Theatre until 29 November 2016. Do critics think it is a strong and worthy musical?
THE ENCOUNTER – Touring
The Encounter is an adventure story which gets inside your head. Literally. Every member of the audience is issued with a set of headphones and using cutting edge audio technology we are transported to the Amazonian rainforest where we find ourselves inside the head of Loren McIntyre, a stranded American photojournalist.
Weekly Theatre Podcast: The War of the Worlds, Uncle Vanya, The Encounter
This week the London theatre bloggers discuss The War of the Worlds in the West End, a modern-dress Uncle Vanya at the Almeida production, Complicite’s The Encounter and the recent UK premiere of Rabbit Hole.
Text of the Day: The Encounter
Favourite stage direction: “As the audience enters, it seems there is almost nothing on stage.”
THE ENCOUNTER – Barbican Theatre
Simon McBurney journeys up the Amazon into the heart of darkness and and finds light and enlightenment.
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