Mnemonic

25 years after its first staging, British theatre company Complicité’s ‘Astonishing, transfixing, transcendent’ (New York Times) production returns to the Olivier stage at National Theatre.

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?