Theatre world pays tribute after death of Marcello Magni

Italian actor, who often worked with his wife Kathryn Hunter, was a co-founder of Complicite, a gifted clown and a voiceover artist for Pingu

Tributes have been paid to the actor Marcello Magni whose death at the age of 63 was announced on Sunday by Simon McBurney and Complicite, the theatre company they co-founded almost 40 years ago.

McBurney said he was utterly bereft" and called Magni my brother, my comrade, companero, hilarious dancer, unparalleled improviser [and] partner-in-play". Other theatre-makers acknowledged Magni's huge influence. Told By an Idiot's artistic director, Paul Hunter, tweeted: He simply blew me away and changed the way I thought about performing."