Live stream: Complicite’s Beware of Pity
Join us on 12 February at 3pm GMT to see Beware of Pity, an exciting collaboration between Complicite and Schaubühne Berlin, as two of Europe’s most boundary-pushing, imaginative theatre companies work together at London’s Barbican for the first time. You can watch the film here until 26 February.
On 12 February, we host a live stream of Beware of Pity, the new sold-out production from the world renowned theatre company Complicite, in an exciting collaboration with the Schaubühne Berlin. It’s a chance to see two of Europe’s most boundary-pushing, imaginative theatre companies working together at London’s Barbican for the first time. It will be available to watch on demand until 26 February, accompanied by a post-show discussion between director Simon McBurney and the Schaubühne’s Artistic Director, Thomas Ostermeier.
In Beware of Pity, McBurney directs the outstanding Schaubühne ensemble in a vivid account of a young man’s slide into a terrible situation, his struggle to extricate himself from it raising questions of consciousness and compassion.
“The novel’s sense of unstoppable disaster has become chillingly resonant” writes Simon McBurney. The production is "a thrilling vortex of fear, hope and doubt" according to the German magazine Zitty. “It is… clear that McBurney’s staging is a comment on the vast new humanitarian catastrophe now engulfing Europe” writes Andrew Haydon in The Guardian.
2 hours with no interval
Age guidance 12+
Performed in German with English surtitles
"A thrilling vortex of fear, hope and doubt"
Beware of Pity. Photograph: Gianmarco Bresadola
Credits:
Complicite and Schaubühne Berlin
Beware of Pity (Ungeduld des Herzens)
Adapted from the book by Stefan Zweig
Co-produced by Complicite and the Schaubühne
Presented by the Barbican and 14-18 NOW, the UK’s arts programme for the First World War centenary
Live streaming presented in partnership with Goethe-Institut London
Adapted by Simon McBurney, James Yeatman, Maja Zade and the Ensemble
Directed by Simon McBurney
Co-directed by James Yeatman
Set design by Anna Fleischle
Costumes by Holly Waddington
Lighting by Paul Anderson
Sound design by Pete Malkin
Sound associate Benjamin Grant
Video by Will Duke
At a glance:
What can I watch?
A performance of Beware of Pity by Complicite and Schaubühne Berlin and a post-show discussion with director Simon McBurney and the Schaubühne’s Artistic Director, Thomas Ostermeier.
When can I watch it?
The live stream begins at 3pm GMT on 12 February 2017, and is then available to watch here until 11.59pm GMT on 26 February.
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