Productions - Complicite

Publicity shot. Photographer: Joao Quintino

Credits

Directed by Jos Houben & Marcello Magni
Words by Mark Wheatley

Design Rae Smith
Lighting Luke Sapsed
Sound Nick Jones

Cast Lilo Baur, Kathryn Hunter, Marcello Magni, Clive Mendus, Toby Sedgwick

Help! I'm Alive

Help! I’m Alive was inspired by a classic 16th century Commedia del’ Arte text, Il Bilora, by the Italian actor and writer Ruzzante. Written in heavy dialect, Ruzzante’s plays have deceptively simple plots, unexplained surprises and gratuitous endings that lend an extraordinary freshness whilst mirroring the absurdity of life itself. Their essential theme is a universal one, and one which drives the majority of Commedia del Arte texts: the need to survive.

Claire Armistead - Financial Times, December 1990

'London's theatre year would hardly be complete without a little something from Theatre de Complicite at the Almeida in Islington, scene of past successes including an outstanding 13-week residency, which gave followers of this invigorating company a chance to evaluate their progress...' More


		Toured Mexico and Brazil in October 1990. Opened at Almeida Theatre, London, in December 1990 and toured nationally.