“Everything you usually hear about cancer is like, ‘We must fight it,’ or ‘We must smash it to bits’. I don’t believe that if you get breast cancer it’s possible for you to just punch yourself in the t**s. It’s your own body and you can’t fight yourself, so I started asking where that language comes from and how it affects people. And then what happens when we don’t talk about it like that.” Writer / performer Bryony Kimmings Opens at Everyman & Playhouse 26 Jan Tickets: www.complicite.org/APacifistsGuide

The language of cancer is a battleground littered with violent metaphors but #APacifistsGuide to the War on Cancer aims to challenge the current discourse on serious illness. Writer Bryony Kimmings: "For me, being a pacifist in the "war on cancer" means that you allow everybody to "do" cancer however they want - to do what feels right for you. Our characters aren’t "brave fighters", they don’t have that choice. Cancer is outside their control." Opens at Everyman & Playhouse Liverpool 26 Jan - 3 Feb. www.complicite.org/APacifistsGuide

Our production of A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer opens at Everyman & Playhouse in Liverpool on 26 Jan! www.complicite.org/APacifistsGuide Touring 2018: Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse Newcastle Northern Stage Coventry Belgrade Theatre, Coventry Canberra Theatre Centre Melbourne Malthouse Theatre Sydney Seymour Centre

We've just released a documentary on our YouTube channel! #TheLittlec charts the making of #APacifistsGuide to the War on Cancer. Meet the people that inspired the show & follow the creative team as they take their stories to the stage. A film by Simon Eves PLASTIK ow.ly/k6bw30hIaS0 Bryony Kimmings Northern Stage Lottie Vallis Kirsty Housley Brian Lobel Tom Parkinson Maggie's at the Cancerkin Centre CancerConnect North West Cancer Research Sunflowers Macmillan Cancer Support A Pacifist's Guide to the War on Cancer 2018 tour ww.complicite.org/APacifistsGuide Liverpool Playhouse: 26 Jan - 3 Feb Newcastle Northern Stage: 7 - 10 Feb Coventry Belgrade Theatre: 14 - 17 Feb Canberra Theatre Centre: 28 Feb - 3 Mar Melbourne Malthouse Theatre: 7 - 18 Mar Sydney Seymour Centre: 22 - 29 Mar

Credit: Sarah Ainslie Jan 2018

5 days left to apply to our Open Workshop: The Story Through Sound Design with the award-winning Sound Designer Gareth Fry (The Encounter, The Master & Margarita, Endgame) 1-2 Feb 2018. More info: http://www.complicite.org/workshops-view.php?ws=open Deadline: 10 Jan 2018, 5pm

** SOLD OUT** We have a limited number of signed copies of Who You Hear It From - a collection of essays and articles by Simon McBurney. Order by 2pm on Thursday 21 Dec and receive by Christmas. (UK residents only) If you would like to buy a signed copy (at no extra cost) head to complicite.org/shop After completing your order email admin@complicite.org with the subject 'Signed copy' Due to availability this is on a first come, first serve basis.

Rare opportunity alert! Gareth Fry is one of the best sound designers on the planet and applications have just opened for a two-day Complicité workshop with him. Aimed at directors, writers and performers. Deadline for applications 5pm 10 Jan 2018. More here: ow.ly/kqhh30hdG0x Gareth's credits with Complicité include: #TheEncounter, The Master and Margarita, Shun-Kin, Endgame, Strange Poetry, The Noise of Time, Mnemonic and The Street of Crocodiles. Other credits include a little show called Harry Potter and the Cursed Child and the 2012 Olympic Games.

We're overjoyed with the reaction to our collaboration with Enda Walsh & Cillian Murphy announced yesterday. #GriefistheThing with Feathers by Max Porter is a moving story of a widower and his young sons which becomes a profound meditation on love, loss and living. complicite.org/grief On general sale from 8 December 2017, 2pm Black Box Theatre, Galway 16 March – 24 March 2018 O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin 28 March – 5 April 2018 #GriefistheThing Cork Opera House Cork Midsummer Festival Galway International Arts Festival Oxford Playhouse St. Ann's Warehouse Edinburgh International Festival Barbican Centre Faber & Faber Faber & Faber Books Arts Council Ireland Times Literary Supplement

complicite.org/grief Announcement! We're making a new production based on the award-winning novel by Max Porter, directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy - Grief is the Thing with Feathers is a moving story of a widower and his young sons which becomes a profound meditation on love, loss and living. Once upon a time there was a crow who wanted nothing more than to care for a pair of motherless children... Priority booking for Complicité members opens Tues 5 December 2017, 10am On public sale from 8 December 2017, 2pm Black Box Theatre, Galway 16 March – 24 March 2018 O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin 28 March – 5 April 2018 #GriefistheThing

Announcement! We're making a new production based on the award-winning novel by Max Porter, directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy - Grief is the Thing with Feathers is a moving story of a widower and his young sons which becomes a profound meditation on love, loss and living. Once upon a time there was a crow who wanted nothing more than to care for a pair of motherless children... Priority booking for Complicité members opens Tues 5 December 2017, 10am On public sale from 8 December 2017, 2pm Black Box Theatre, Galway 16 March – 24 March 2018 O’Reilly Theatre, Dublin 28 March – 5 April 2018 complicite.org/grief #GriefistheThing Complicité and Wayward Productions In association with Landmark Productions, LLC and Galway International Arts Festival Co-produced with Barbican Centre, Cork Opera House, Oxford Playhouse, St. Ann's Warehouse and Warwick Arts Centre Supported by Lindsay Badenoch and Brian Carmody Faber & Faber Books Guardian culture British Council Ireland Times Literary Supplement The Stage Cork Midsummer Festival Town Hall Theatre BroadwayWorld Pages of Hackney Pushkin Press Oberon Books