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Conceived and directed by Simon McBurney
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| The cast of Mnemonic |
A one-act, two-hour, seven-hander, Complicité’s Mnemonic returns to London, revised from its original iteration some 25 years ago.
A bold conceit that explores the fragile strands of our memories, the play interweaves a series of pan-European micro-narratives all set against a backdrop of the discovery of, and research into, the frozen 5,000 year old corpse of a man found high in the Alps.
The acting, the design and the stagecraft on display are all flawless in a production that at times is mesmerising. But Icarus-like, Mnemonic strives to say too much and in the end delivers little more than a garbled message. The evening sees world-class production values mingled with undergraduate agitprop, in a clutch of shallow arguments that cling to a biased commentary on the sacred timelessness of the refugee in a world (or at least a Europe) that is, or the play suggests should be, frontier-free.
Simon McBurney returns to direct his original conception. Pure theatrical Marmite.
Runs until 10th August
Photo credit: Johan Persson
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