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Tom Cruise reprises his role as Impossible Mission Force (IMF)
agent Ethan Hunt in the fifth film of the action thriller series.
Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the movie follows on
from events in the previous instalment where the IMF agents find
themselves being targeted by a shadowy organisation of
highly-trained assassins known only as the Syndicate. Can Ethan
reassemble the now-disbanded IMF team to bring down this rogue
organisation before it's too late? The supporting cast includes
Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Ferguson and Alec Baldwin.
James Marsh directs this award-winning biographical drama starring
Eddie Redmayne as English physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking
and Felicity Jones as his first wife Jane. The film follows the
relationship between Stephen and Jane as they fall in love while
studying at Cambridge during the 1960s. With Jane's support,
Stephen is able to deal with his diagnosis of advanced motor
neurone disease, which leads to him becoming almost completely
paralysed over the years, and achieve great success and
international acclaim in the scientific field with his theories on
time and space. However, with the deterioration of his health comes
a deterioration of his marriage, putting further strain on the now
world-renowned scientist. The film won a Golden Globe Award for
Best Original Score as well as BAFTAs for Best Adapted Screenplay
and Outstanding British Film. Eddie Redmayne also won a Golden
Globe, a BAFTA and an Academy Award for his performance.
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The Encounter (Paperback)
Simon McBurney, Complicite
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R391
R304
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In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found
himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in
Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing
the limits of human consciousness into startling focus. Inspired by
the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, The Encounter traces
McIntyre's journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest,
incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance to
build a shifting world of sound. The Encounter opened at the
Edinburgh International Festival in August 2015 performed by Simon
McBurney, and received its London premiere at the Barbican in
February 2016 before embarking on a world tour.
'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to
be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most
inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he
shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of performance,
improvisation, masks, movement and gesture, which together form one
of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre. Neutral mask,
character mask and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia,
clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered
in this book - techniques that have made their way into the work of
former collaborators and students including Dario Fo, Ariane
Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicite. The book
contains a foreword by Simon McBurney, a critical introduction by
Mark Evans and an afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the
International Theatre School in Paris.
THE STREET OF CROCODILES is inspired by the life and stories of
Polish writer Bruno Schulz (1892-1942). "This astounding play
creates a vision of provincial Poland in the early part of the
century as a restless ocean of unending flux, the miracle of
Complicite's interpretation of Schulz's stories" - New York Times
THE THREE LIVES OF LUCIE CABROL is adapted from John Berger's short
story: "The story becomes an unsentimental evocation of peasant
life, a hymn to the tenacity of love and a Brechtian fable about
the world's unfairness...You follow this Complicite version as
intensely as you read a Grimms' fairytale" Financial Times
MNEMONIC: "An ice-preserved body - from 5,200 years ago - forms the
central image of Theatre de Complicite's dazzlingly imaginative
meditation on memory and morality. Timely and unforgettable" -
Independent"Theatre de Complicite ignore frontiers and cross them
without official papers" - John Berger
'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to
be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most
inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he
shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of performance,
improvisation, masks, movement and gesture, which together form one
of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre. Neutral mask,
character mask and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia,
clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered
in this book - techniques that have made their way into the work of
former collaborators and students including Dario Fo, Ariane
Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicite. The book
contains a foreword by Simon McBurney, a critical introduction by
Mark Evans and an afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the
International Theatre School in Paris.
A Disappearing Number takes as its starting point the story of one
of the most mysterious and romantic mathematical collaborations of
all time. Simultaneously a narrative and an enquiry, the production
crosses three continents and several histories, to weave a
provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to
understand. A man mourns the loss of his lover, a mathematician
mourns her own fate. A businessman travels from Los Angeles to
Chennai pursuing the future; a physicist in CERN looks for it too.
The mathematician G.H. Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the
genius Srinivasa Ramanujan in the chilly English surroundings of
Cambridge during the First World War. Ramanujan looks to create
some of the most complex mathematical patterns of all time.
Threaded through this pattern of stories and ideas are questions.
About mathematics and beauty; imagination and the nature of
infinity; about what is continuous and what is permanent; how we
are attached to the past and how we affect the future; how we
create and how we love. The book features an essay by Marcus du
Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at Wadham College, Oxford, and an
introduction by Simon McBurney. The Complicite production was an
astonishing success during its run at the Barbican, London in
Spring 2007, winning The Evening Standard's Best New Play Award
2007. Called ' Mesmerizing' by the New York Times, 'A Disappearing
Number' is a brilliant play, aided with original music composed by
the award winning DJ, producer and writer Nitin Sawhney. 'A
Disappearing Number' was revived at the Novello Theatre, London in
autumn 2010.
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