A night to remember: the return of Complicité classic Mnemonic – in pictures
Twenty-five years after its first production, Complicité’s play about memory is revived at the National Theatre in London
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Seen here in 1999, Complicité’s Mnemonic is one of the groundbreaking company’s biggest hits
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Richard Katz, Laurenz Laufenberg, Kostas Philippoglou, Khalid Abdalla and Sarah Slimani in the new production of Mnemonic, conceived and directed by Simon McBurney
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Richard Katz and Eileen Walsh in Mnemonic, which weaves together fragmented stories including the 1991 discovery in the Tirolean Alps of an iceman mummy nicknamed Ötzi
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Mnemonic grows into a meditation on storytelling, time and memory
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Added to the story are a woman looking for her father and a man in search of his lost lover
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Simon McBurney on stage during tech rehearsals
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Several members of the cast were in the original 1999 production
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Khalid Abdalla, whose recent credits include playing Dodi Fayed in The Crown
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Tim McMullan, second from right, is also back from the original cast
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The set design is by Michael Levine, costumes are by Christina Cunningham, lighting is by Paul Anderson, sound design by Christopher Shutt and video design by Roland Horvath for rocafilm
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The play makes magic from the simplest of props such as a chair which becomes a body
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Simon McBurney on stage during tech rehearsals
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The company’s other recent works include Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Figures in Extinction and The Encounter
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Simon McBurney in the original production with Katrin Cartlidge, who died in 2002
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McBurney on stage during tech rehearsals. Mnemonic is at the National Theatre, London, until 10 August
