One of the most astonishing discoveries of modern times is the immensity of the pastmnemonic / ni'monik / adj. 1. assisting or intended to assist memory; 2. of memoryA 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.As relevant in 2024 as it was in 1999, Mnemonic asks us: what is ou...

A play and production from one of the world's most innovative theatre companiesMnemonic is about memory, people's personal histories, shared memories and discordant recollections - exhuming the past in order to examine it in the present. A variety of stories - from the discovery of bog people like Tollund Man to peoples compulsion to retrace the origins of their ancestors - collide and form a piece of theatre which questions our concept of time, our capacity to distort history and ...

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 shif...

Winer of a 1994 Time Out Theatre Award and TMA/Martini Award for Best UK Touring ProductionLucie Cabrol is a wild, tiny woman born into a peasant family in France in 1900. Abandoned by her lover, Jean, and banished by her family, she becomes an outcast. She survives her second life by smuggling goods across the border. But it is not until her thrid life, her afterlife, that she discovers the survival of something more than bare human existence - the survival of hope and love.