Complicite

Complicite is a theatre company that tours all over the world and since it was started in 1983 has won 50 major theatre awards. It is led by Artistic Director Simon McBurney and is a publicly funded not-for-profit company and a registered charity with a strong reputation for educational work.

Complicite's work has ranged from entirely devised work to theatrical adaptations and revivals of classic texts. The Company has also worked in other media; radio productions of Mnemonic and John Berger's To The Wedding, a collaboration with The Pet Shop Boys in Trafalgar Square and The Vertical Line, a multi-disciplinary installation performed in a disused tube station.

Always changing and moving forward to incorporate new stimuli, the principles of the work have remained close to the original impulses: seeking what is most alive, integrating text, music, image and action to create surprising, disruptive theatre.

There is no Complicite method. What is essential is collaboration.

Complicite researches and trains through exploratory workshops. This long process of experimentation has resulted in some of our most successful, ground-breaking productions.

'Complicite is more than a theatre company: it is a state of mind. When each collaborative adventure into the unknown starts off, anything is possible. The result is an astonishingly broad and continually evolving spectrum of work.' Roger Graef