Mnemonic

State Theatre Company of South Australia in association with Adelaide Festival Centre's inSPACE program present Mnemonic. Conceived by Simon McBurney and devised by Complicite.

A PLAY YOU'LL NEVER FORGET.

Winner 2001 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience
Winner 2001 Time Out Live Award for Outstanding Achievement
Winner 1999 The Critics Circle Award for Best New Play

mnemonic / ni'monik / adj. 1: assisting or intended to assist memory; 2: of memory

This is the story of Virgil, whose lover Alice has left him and disappeared for months. It's also Alice's story as she heads east across Europe in search of the father she never knew.

Interwoven with these stories is an account of the discovery of the Ice Man, a 5000 year-old corpse found on a 3000 metre alpine peak in 1991. Who was this man who froze to death alone on an icy mountain all those centuries ago? Why was he there? It's an archaeological detective tale and a forensic love story.

Place and memory collide while stories that are older than the millennium connect to stories that surround us in everyday life. Stories of journeys fragment, reflect, repeat and revolve like the act of memory itself as Mnemonic questions our understanding of time, our capacity to distort history and our attempts to retell the past.

Featuring intriguing and innovative stagecraft, Mnemonic is a theatre experience that traverses imagination and time. We guarantee it's like nothing you've ever seen.

"Miraculous, moving and mysterious..." Daily Telegraph

"Mnemonic is mesmerizing, thought-provoking and brilliantly original...unforgettable" Independent

Starring	Antje Guenther, Renato Musolino, Nick Pelomis
Director	Adam Cook
Set Designer	Brian Thomson
Costume Designer	Morag Cook
Lighting	Mark Pennington