Productions - Complicite

Credits

Directed by Simon McBurney
Based on the book by Torgny Lindgren
Adapted by Simon McBurney and Matthew Broughton
Devised by The Company

Design Dick Bird
Lighting Paul Anderson
Sound Paul Arditti
Costume Christina Cunningham

Cast Joseph Alessi, Mick Barnfather, Lilo Baur, Maria Eggers, Bronagh Gallagher, Dermot Kerrigan, Tim McMullan, Tobias Menzies, Toby Sedgwick

Light

In this adaptation of Torgny Lindgren’s wittily bleak novel, a man goes on a journey in search of love and returns to his village carrying death in the form of a plague-ridden rabbit. The village is ravaged by sickness and of those who survive no one any longer knows what is right and what is wrong. The opposing values of civilisation and barbarity balance on a knife-edge.

Dominic Cavendish - The Daily Telegraph, November 2000

'For people who've never seen Theatre de Complicite, it must be infuriating to hear critics endlessly singing the company's praises. Even those who have must find the adulation irksome, because Complicite shows now sell out long before the press has had a look-in. A good review is tantamount to rubbing salt in the wounds of the ticketless...' More

Paul Taylor - The Independent, November 2000

'In the world of theatrical illusion, rabbits tend to stick to their multiplying like, well, rabbits. Show me a top hat, and I'll show you a surprise bunny. That rule is subjected to a blackly comic reductio ad absurdum, then put into reverse, then redemptivley resumed in Light, the agonisingly mordant and moving new show by Complicite, which has been adapted by Simon McBurney and Matthew Broughton from the novel of the same name by the Swedish author Torgny Lindgren...' More


		Opened September 2002 at the Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield. Toured to Salford The Lowry, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Stockholm Statsteater, Dublin Festival Gaiety Theatre, Bath Theatre Royal, Mold Theatre Clwyd and London Almeida.