Complicite
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
Claire Armitstead
24, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM
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
Chris Wiegand
19, Sep, 2022 @10:11 AM
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
Kate Kellaway
12, Dec, 2021 @9:30 AM
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
Arifa Akbar
14, Sep, 2021 @7:00 PM
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’
Lanre Bakare
13, May, 2020 @2:13 PM
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
Michael Billington, Alexis Soloski, Catherine Love, Mark Fisher and Chris Wiegand
17, Sep, 2019 @2:43 PM
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
Mark Fisher, Lyndsey Winship and Brian Logan
14, Jun, 2019 @6:00 AM
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’
Anthea Williams
08, Feb, 2019 @1:40 AM
What musical theatre can teach us about how we respond to cancer
The female experience of disease is at the heart of an extraordinary and moving show
Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore
27, Mar, 2018 @12:26 AM
Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy takes wing
In Enda Walsh’s ambitious adaptation of the Max Porter novel, Murphy is riveting as a bereaved husband – and an imaginary crow
Helen Meany
22, Mar, 2018 @5:00 PM
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
Chris Wiegand
30, Nov, 2017 @11:30 AM
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
Kate Kellaway
26, Mar, 2017 @7:00 AM
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