Topic: Simon McBurney
It may seem surprising that Simon McBurney of Complicit? fame, one of the most innovative and exuberant of directorial talents, has never before tackled opera. Thanks to Pierre Audi and De Nederlandse Opera, co-promoters of A Dog's Heart, McBurney has at ...
The story of a singing dog sounds like the kind of shaggy mutt tale that might have featured on the television programme That's Life!. The work is a stage adaptation of A Dog's Heart, a 1925 novel by Russian author ...
This was a triumph for Complicite when first presented three years ago, and here it returns for a short run in the West End. It's a welcome showcase for the lyrical, richly patterned work of Simon McBurney's superb company. Ruth ...
Simon McBurney and his Complicite company last made waves at the Barbican by making maths easy in the award-winning A Disappearing Number. Fusing two 1933 works from novelist Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, McBurney and his 10 Japanese performers spirit us far away to ...
Simon McBurney, the avant-garde theater director, is the only director Ive ever seen to take a bow not only after his own shows, but before. Ive also seen him called up onstage post-performance to take a most reluctant bow along with his ...
If Arthur Miller's 1947 All My Sons-a moral melodrama about war profiteering-were mounted by one of our usual Broadway suspects (such as the Roundabout), it would surely creak from the weight of its own significance. But the producers of this revival ...
Grandiose 'All My Sons,' orchestrated by director Simon McBurney, opens on BroadwayIt's not about Katie Holmes. Or even John Lithgow, Dianne Wiest or Patrick Wilson, for that matter.The real star of Broadway's chilly, high-concept revival of "All My Sons ...
Garlanded with theatre awards and generating daily queues for returns during its 2007 Barbican season Simon McBurney's A Disappearing Number stages a welcome return visit. My second viewing of this metaphysical mystery tour of the world of higher mathematics leaves me ...
Early morning in the converted north London piano factory that Simon McBurney calls home, and the visionary director of Complicite is jet-lagged. But as McBurney points out, Ramanujan's imaginative leaps are only now being understood as a possible clue to a ...
This extraordinary, beautiful piece of theatre, the latest Simon McBurney has created and directed for his Complicite Company, is inspired by mathematics and metaphysics. The central focus is on real-life people: a 26-year-old Brahmin clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan working in Madras, and the ...
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Simon McBurney, co-founder of Complicite, talks to Andrew Dickson about ...2010-10-07 -
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