Kurt Andersen talks with actor, director, and playwright SimonMcBurney, director and star of the current play Mnemonic, about the intimate connections between art and memory in theater, architecture, poetry, and music.
McBurney is the artistic director and co-founder of the London-based Theatre de Complicite. Over the last several years he and members of theater company have led workshops around the world exploring the subject of memory and culture, a project that evolved into Mnemonic, a play running through next week at the John Jay College Theater in New York. A national tour of Mnemonic is planned for the fall of 2001.