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The Times UK

Shun-Kin, Barbican, London
This is a fascinatingly ambiguous piece, finely staged by Simon McBurney and complete with his Complicite-style effects

The Guardian

Shun-kin, Barbican, London
The excitment you so often get from a Complicite show is missing here, writes Lyn Gardner

Daily Telegraph

Shun Kin at the Barbican, review
Rarely have the usually sure-fire dramatic ingredients of sex and violence seemed so dull as in Shun Kin, finds Charles Spencer.

London Theatre Guide

First Night Feature: Shun-kin
Pioneering theatre company Complicite returns to the Barbican theatre to weave its magic with an epic Japanese myth, Shun-kin, where love and violence, beauty and cruelty all become entwined.

The Independent

First Night: Shun-kin, Barbican Theatre, London (Rated 2/ 5 )

Whatsonstage.com

Review: Shun-kin
At the heart of Shun-kin, the latest production from Simon McBurney’s Complicite, in a co-production with barbicanbite 09 and the Setagaya Public Theatre, Tokyo, is a simple love story: that of a blind, wealthy merchant’s daughter and her sli...

Variety

Shun-kin, Barbican Theatre, London
...featuring puppetry, live music and fluid movement of props and set pieces by a talented ensemble -- creates a hypnotically insular onstage world. But narrative and directorial embellishments add levels of complication that dissipate the material's power...