Mnemonic

By . Complicite and Jane Russell

Book Overview

A play and production from one of the world's most innovative theatre companies

Mnemonic is about memory, people's personal histories, shared memories and discordant recollections - exhuming the past in order to examine it in the present. A variety of stories - from the discovery of bog people like Tollund Man to peoples compulsion to retrace the origins of their ancestors - collide and form a piece of theatre which questions our concept of time, our capacity to distort history and our attempts to retell the past.
"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)

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0413747204
• ISBN13: 9780413747204
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Just plain wow.

I don't think that the text of this play really captures the experience of seeing the Theatre De Complicete production. I like to think that I know my theater, modern and otherwise, but I left the show in a state of shock. This play made me completely reconsider what the medium of theater could accomplish. Reading this play is not the same thing as the ephemeral, mystifying experience of a live production, but I suppose it's the next best thing.

another magic box

this is anotherone of complicites masterpieces. a travel through our imagination-full of miracles