Complicite Plays: 1: Street of Crocodiles; Mnemonic; The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol [Paperback]

THE STREET OF CROCODILES is inspired by the life and stories of Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). This astounding play creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as a restless ocean of unending flux, the miracle of Complicite's interpretation of Schulz's stories - New York Times

THE THREE LIVES OF LUCIE CABROL is adapted from John Berger's short story: The story becomes an unsentimental evocation of peasant life, a hymn to the tenacity of love and a Brechtian fable about the world's unfairness....You follow this Complicite version as intensely as you read a Grimms' fairytale Financial Times

MNEMONIC: An ice-preserved body - from 5,200 years ago - forms the central image of Theatre de Complicite's dazzlingly imaginative meditation on memory and morality. Timely and unforgettable - Independent Theatre de Complicite ignore frontiers and cross them without official papers - John Berger

The Street of Crocodiles creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the century as a restless ocean of unending flux. Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol offers an unsentimental evocation of peasant life, while an ice-preserved body forms the central image of Mnemonic .Street of Crocodiles; Mnemonic; The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol