PHYSICAL THEATRE & Barbican Performance.

Warm-Up and Ensemble Development.

Complicite is a British theatre company which was founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden and Marcello Magni. It's original name was Theatre de Complicite. The company's style has a inimitable style of visual and devised theatre and emphasises on strong, poetic, corporeal and surrealist image which is normal supporting text. Complicite is based on Anglers lane in, North West London.

The roots of Complicite is mostly all traced back to the students who studied at Ecole Jacques Leqoq in Paris, this type of training is at heart of the company teaching training. Complicite's style is  Theatre Physical and Visual Theatre based.

Complicite create their style by devising, which includes games; ensemble work, language of movement, tension, rhythm, creating characters and working from text.

The working process for Complicite is the way Complicite working process by a movement process in which then leads to a text session. The movement is in central to everything to every single lesson held.

The working process can start by inventing games, or playing ball games, or even playing ball games together in a group , also maybe looking in Augusto Boal's book which is (Games for Actors and Non-Actors). Complicite gets a lot of physical work into rehearsal rooms, moving away from the table-based analysis, adding onto translating text into imagery and movement. Which they work from photographs and paintings which is definitely a good way of getting used to movement.

cques Lecoq. August 1997