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‘Having 36 dancers waiting for me fills me with dread’: choreographer Crystal Pite on her seminal productions

The Canadian dance director has created a dazzling body of work that tackles human relationships and the big questions of our times. She talks through pivotal moments in her career

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Probably the world's greatest choreographer does not like choreographing

Crystal Pite is in demand around the world for her visceral, epic work but for the Canadian artist, the demands of creation means the journey to success can be a struggle

Evening Standard

‘Theatre puts a finger in the wound’: Willem Dafoe returns to his first love in Venice

He is a transfixing screen presence – but he lives for the raw thrill of the stage. As he takes over the Venice theatre biennale, the star lets us know what to expect: cut-up plays and a Pinocchio unlike any other

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The week in classical: Khovanshchina; Carmen review – the parallels with modern Russia are unmissable

Mussorgsky’s apocalyptic unfinished opera is given a fierce new lease of life by the McBurney brothers, Esa-Pekka Salonen and an exceptional young mezzo

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‘So resonant’: the 19th-century Russian opera being revived across Europe

Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina – set in the troubled 1680s – can almost describe current events, say directors

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Figures in Extinction review – Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s impassioned response to the climate crisis

The choreographer and director’s impassioned trilogy, a co-production between Nederlands Dance Theater and Complicité, reaches its hugely moving conclusion

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Figures in Extinction review – life, death and a heartfelt plea for Earth’s creatures, humans included

Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s three-act dance work on the state of the world turns the stage itself into a living thing, morphing between shades of sorrow, humour, fear and relief

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‘The unknowable is not nothing’: Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney on the mysteries of Figures in Extinction

Death looms large in the pair’s dance trilogy but, as Complicité’s artistic director says, confronting it is ‘integral to and essential for life’

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And the winner should be… Observer critics choose their alternative Oscars for 2025

Before the Academy Award nominations are announced on Sunday, Observer critics name their standout movies, performances, directors and more

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From Edvard Munch to Central Cee: Observer critics choose their cultural highlights for 2025

From Thom Yorke’s Shakespearean score to 25 years of Tate Modern, Bridget Jones to Leigh Bowery, our writers anticipate the most exciting shows, releases and events of the year

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‘Nosferatu’ Review: Robert Eggers Takes The Gothic Horror Classic Straight To Hell

Robert Eggers’ 'Nosferatu' remake is a gruesome and depraved update on the classic of horror cinema.

Inverse

Nosferatu review: "Bill Skarsgård is unrecognizable in this gothic horror with bite"

Total Film

Mnemonic review – Complicité’s brainteaser goes back to the future

Simon McBurney returns to direct his 1999 drama and it still fizzes, even if some of the images are more rewarding than the ideas

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On my radar: Simon McBurney’s cultural highlights

The actor, director and playwright on a delicious social enterprise, a radical climate movement, and his favourite place to commune with the dead

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‘The boundary between fact and fiction is extremely blurry': Simon McBurney as Mnemonic returns to the theatre

Mnemonic, conceived and directed by Complicité Artistic Director, Simon McBurney, is at the Olivier, National Theatre until 10 August 2024

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The week in classical: The Magic Flute; Manon Lescaut review – the trials of love

The anarchy and invention of Simon McBurney’s Mozart production triumphs as ENO plays on; Puccini gets a rough ride at English Touring Opera. Plus, the pros and cons of Radio 3’s new schedule

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The Magic Flute review – ENO’s revival is a peach of wit, wisdom and laughs

There’s never a dull moment in Simon McBurney’s ingenious production, with Sarah Tynan and the ENO orchestra in fine fettle and a demented dalek-like Queen of the Night

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Lessons by Ian McEwan review – chance, memory and the road not taken

Actor Simon McBurney narrates the tale of how a sexual relationship between a teenage boy and his piano teacher changes the course of his life

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Nederlands Dans Theater NDT1 review – a cri de coeur about the climate crisis

Sadler’s Wells, LondonIn a strong triple bill, sublimely danced, Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney’s Figures in Extinction [1.0] stands out as a powerful portrait of nature under threat

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Nederlands Dans Theater review – a moving menagerie from a world in crisis

Figures in Extinction [1.0], a Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney collaboration, is the climax to a triple bill featuring excellent technique and film noir atmosphere

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review – a magnificent Complicité creation

Simon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga Tokarczuk

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Midwinter magic: Robert Macfarlane on the enduring power of The Dark Is Rising

Susan Cooper’s 1973 novel, newly adapted for a BBC audio series, has enthralled generations of children and writers with its folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark

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Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

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Marcello Magni obituary

Italian actor and co-founder of the theatre company Complicité who was admired for the physicality of his performances

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Theatre world pays tribute after death of Marcello Magni

Italian actor, who often worked with his wife Kathryn Hunter, was a co-founder of Complicité, a gifted clown and a voiceover artist for Pingu

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