Mnemonic
conceived by Simon McBurney
a co-production with Complicité
Booking and details
Please note that using mobile phones in the auditorium is not allowed as a requirement for admission.
mnemonic / ni’monik / adj. 1. assisting or intended to assist memory; 2. of memory
A body is found in the ice, and a woman is looking for her father while a man searches for his lost lover.
This story is as much about origins as it is about memory, and remembering what is lost. Mnemonic asks: what is our place in the natural world? How have human relationships with the environment shaped patterns of migration? Who are we, and where do we come from?
25 years after its first staging, Complicité’s ‘Astonishing, transfixing, transcendent’ (New York Times) production returns to the National Theatre. Simon McBurney (Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead) directs.
‘I shall remember Mnemonic all my life’
Guardian
Originally co-produced by the Salzburg Festival
This production is supported by the Mirisch and Lebenheim Charitable Foundation.
Suitability
For ages 14+
Please note: This production features strong language, prolonged periods of nudity/nakedness and themes and descriptions of climate disaster and death.
Cast includes
Richard Katz
Richard Katz
Kostas Phillippoglou
Kostas Phillippoglou
Production team
Director
Simon McBurney
Simon McBurney
Set Designer
Michael Levine
Michael Levine
Costume Designer
Christina Cunningham
Christina Cunningham
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Christopher Shutt
Christopher Shutt
For the National Theatre: London Tide, The Crucible (West End), Much Ado About Nothing, The Corn is Green, Paradise, Hansard, Antony and Cleopatra, Top Girls, Julie, John, Twelfth Night, Man and Superman, Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and War Horse (also West End and Broadway and on tour)
Video Designer
Roland Horvath for rocafilm
Roland Horvath for rocafilm
Casting Director
Alastair Coomer CDG
Alastair Coomer CDG
Recent National Theatre includes: Nye (also Wales Millennium Centre), Till the Stars Come Down, The House of Bernarda Alba, Othello, The Crucible (also West End), Blues for an Alabama Sky and The Corn is Green
Associate Director
Christina Deinsberger
Christina Deinsberger
Associate Set Designer
Originally devised by the company
Ticket prices
Monday – Saturday evenings and matinees:
£20, £34, £49, £69, £89
Previews 22 – 28 June:
£20, £26, £35, £49, £64
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Please note the 6.30pm start time on the following performances: Tue 23 Jul, Thu 25 Jul, Thu 1 Aug and Tue 6 Aug.
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Prices may change according to demand
What's on guide
Assisted performances
Captioned
BSL Interpreted
Audio described
Chilled performance
No Dementia-friendly performances available.
No Relaxed performance available.
No Sensory adapted performances available.
The interpreter for the BSL performance will be Peter Abraham (via Theatresign).
Audio-described performances are preceded by a Touch Tour, 90 minutes before the performance start time. Call the Access line on 020 7452 3961 to book Touch Tours.
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Smart caption glasses
Will not be available for performances of Mnemonic.
Mnemonic (2024) Composite images from Avinash Kumar and Plainpicture / Millennium / Alicja Brodowicz.