Complicite is a British theater company with, inexplicably, a French name—one that I often translate as "Guilt," since I blame the troupe for wasting about 18 hours of my theatergoing life in recent years. The company's preferred form seems to be the overlong, intermissionless one-act, which spares it the embarrassment of seeing audience members stream for the exits at intermission. Its mode of choice is a watery paste of image theater and narrative, usually with some kind of scientific or historical material dropped in to provide a hint of substance, and heavily decorated with multimedia effects. The results always make me think of those restaurants where every dish is elaborately decked out to conceal the... More >>>