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...Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen (1998) incorporates Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle within the structure of the play....
...Michael Longhurst, artistic director of this tiny powerhouse in Covent Garden, can’t wait. “It’s frozen in time at a moment halfway through a get-out [the dismantling of a set] from March,” he says....
...Alone on stage, Simon McBurney, inspirational artistic director of Complicité, uses just a few water bottles and bundles of VHS tape, together with immensely clever use of binaural sound, to take you on...
...’s A Number), multiple universes (Nick Payne’s Constellations) and quantum mechanics (Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen)....
...“Stefan Zweig just tastes fake,” wrote the critic Michael Hofmann seven years ago. “He’s the Pepsi of Austrian writing.”...
...Farrell plays Corporal John McBurney, the luckiest civil war Yankee ever to get wounded in the South....
...Monica Dolan, Simon McBurney and Rufus Jones have comic form: the latter’s glum despair as his wife (Keeley Hawes) thrusts her bosom into his face, goading him into manliness, is a joy to behold....
...” … In 1983, when he was just 25, Salonen was asked to replace the eminent American conductor Michael Tilson Thomas at short notice and conducted the Philharmonia in a dazzling performance of Mahler’s...
...Director Michael Longhurst had the considerable challenge of staging Constellations. At first, he pondered the use of technology....
...Peter Rabbit has a fling in the Scottish Highlands in the company of a redoubtable relative, Finlay McBurney....
...As reported on this page from the Amsterdam premiere, McBurney and his design team (Michael Levine, Christina Cunningham, Paul Anderson and Finn Ross) have found a means of filling out Raskatov’s lean score...
...When Michael Levine’s pre-designed set was erected, it was immediately clear that it was all wrong – but there was only a week to go before opening....
...Michael Frayn did it with quantum mechanics, Simon McBurney did it with maths, now Lucy Prebble has done it with accounting....
...And I have never seen this dimension played so fully as by Mark Rylance in Simon McBurney’s Complicite production....
...Without fetishising the fringe (I shall never forget Théatre de Complicité’s co-counder Simon McBurney, eyes blazing, telling me how much he loathed most fringe theatre), I came to the conclusion that glamour...
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