Simon McBurney - Complicité

‘The Encounter’ is based on a true story. In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a photographer for National Geographic, got lost in the remote Brazilian Javar Valley. He encountered the culture of indigenous tribes that revealed the limits of human consciousness. In this solo performance, the actor, writer and director Simon McBurney follows in the footsteps of McIntyre on his journey into the deepest labyrinths of the Amazon rainforest. Using his voice and 3D audio, he constructs a hallucinatory and spellbinding world. ‘The Encounter’ is a tour de force for both the actor and the audience, due to the use of headphones, and is an aurally and visually amazing experience. First-class storytelling: funny, profound, gripping and visionary.