'These many diverse Associates - as they’re known – have developed and evolved a shared creative language, which provides an anchor for the explorative work that the Company has become famous for and which foregrounds every piece they bring to the stage. This focus on a collaborative devising process has meant that Complicité has also become famous for a distinctive, visually rich stage language, which layers physically beautiful performances and tightly choreographed ensemble work with innovative lighting, sound and video design.'

"We began with little more than a fierce work ethic and a desire to do something different and to do it differently."

It is about telling stories in a voice we don't always hear and about finding talent in places we don't always look

"Gecko is currently creating their eighth stage production, commissioned by the National Theatre, exploring themes of racism, family, migration, and home."

"... We developed our skills and cultivated a very definite and exciting style through the process of making work and facilitating and leading workshops relating to our style of devising and performance.”

• I think the performance went really well! Our enthusiasm and effort felt great and I'm happy with the way it went. Throughout the rehearsal stages we kept coming up with more movement to embody the characters, like Jenny's limp gradually getting better for example. I think small details like that really came through in the performance. I did well to never forget a line and I really gave it my all on performance day. The audience enjoyed it too even though it was saddest and longest than all the rest.

• Where we didn't go so well in was our lines being practiced 100%. During the rehearsals leading up to our performance it was clear we had work to do for the second half of the script. I believe a mixture of the larger then average script, people being missing from lesson and a few people losing their lines and breaking their scripts tributed to a few miss steps on performance day. 
• There were also parts where we should have added extra physical theatre techniques, ie Frantic Assembly mask work on page 306. "... Her limbs in plastic. Her neck in plastic. Her mask..." If we'd used the scarf and rapped it around her head to make her do more physical movements. 

"We were thrilled to find ourselves working with Mark Ravenhill. We were having a drink after a show at the National Student Drama Festival and Mark casually suggested we should work together."  P1