Digital Offer
Bring Complicité’s work into your classroom with our Digital Offer which provides UK and international schools and colleges online access to four Complicité productions along with exclusive digital resources.
The offer has four packages, all of which include our thirty-minute documentary Complicité Does A Level Drama, which demystifies the devising process for students studying Complicité. Accompanying this film, educational institutions can opt for either the film of our 2023 production, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the film of our production, A Disappearing Number or our filmed production, Can I Live?. You can also opt to rent A Disappearing Number and Can I Live? together.
The digital offer is available for either the Autumn term (1 September 2023 to 5 January 2024) or the Spring and Summer terms (8 January 2024 – 23 July 2024).
The cost to rent each package is:
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead + Complicité Does A Level Drama (£110)
- A Disappearing Number + Complicité Does A Level Drama (£60)
- Can I Live? + Complicité Does A Level Drama (£60)
- Can I Live?, A Disappearing Number + Complicité Does A Level Drama (£85)
The 2023-24 registration form is now open.
Find out about the different digital resources below.
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“It is a godsend for Drama teachers as it is so bespoke and in-tune with what they must guide the students to do. I don’t know of any other company that does this.”
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Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead
Based on Nobel Prize winning author Olga Tokarczuk’s novel of the same name, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a new work for theatre conceived and directed by Simon McBurney. Tokarczuk’s controversial, violent, genre defying novel – part thriller, part comedy, and part blistering poetic manifesto for the rights of animals and the environment – caused an uproar in its native Poland upon publication.
You can also take a look at our free Resource Pack or visit the Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead production page for more information.
Running time: 2 hours 58 minutes
Access: Captions available
Age Guidance: 12+ (Contains moments of intense bright lights, haze and gunshots. There is also swearing, nudity, violence and the staged mistreatment of animals)
A Disappearing Number
This multi-award winning performance, directed by Simon McBurney, tells the true story of the collaboration between Cambridge professor GH Hardy and self-taught mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan from Chennai in India, who made some of the most important mathematical discoveries of the 20th century.
You can also take a look at our free Resource Pack or visit the A Disappearing Number production page.
Running time: 2 hours 7 minutes
Access: Captions available
Complicité Does A Level Drama
Complicité’s extraordinary ensemble of Associate Artists and theatre-makers devised two new pieces under A Level Drama conditions. In this video, students will follow the Company’s process through the project, giving them an insight into the Company’s physical training and play and approach to devising. You can also visit the Complicité Does A Level Drama page to learn more about the project.
Included in the Digital Offer is exclusive access to the Complicité Does A Level Drama written resource with insights from the Company’s written work throughout the project.
Running time: 30 minutes
Access: Captions available
Can I Live?
Exclusively available as part of our Digital Offer, Can I Live? is a vital new digital performance about the climate catastrophe. Weaving his story with spoken word, rap, theatre, animation and the scientific facts, Fehinti Balogun charts a course through the fundamental issues underpinning the emergency, identifying the intimate relationship between the environmental crisis and the global struggle for social justice, and sharing how, as a young Black British man, he has found his place in the climate movement.
Included in the Digital Offer is an exclusive letter from Fehinti to students watching the filmed performance and prompt questions to guide teachers exploring the work with their students.
There is also a free Resource Pack to accompany Can I Live? to help students discover more about the ecological emergency, climate justice and the creatives behind this filmed performance.
Running time: 1 hour
Access: Audio-description and captions available
Age guidance: 12+ (Contains some flashing images, some strong language, explores themes of racism, classism and describes some violence)
Email creativeengagement@complicite.org with any questions.