The Encounter Closing Jan 08, 2016
The Encounter
Directed and performed by Simon McBurney
Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu.
In 1969 Loren McIntyre, a National Geographic photographer, found himself lost among the people of the remote Javari Valley in Brazil. It was an encounter that was to change his life, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus.
Simon McBurney traces McIntyre’s journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into his solo performance to build a shifting world of sound.
“The Encounter” at the Golden Theatre on Broadway
First Preview 20, Sept 2016
Opening Night 29, Sept 2016
Closing 08, Jan 2017
Hailed by Ben Brantley of The New York Times as “one of the most immersive theatre pieces ever created,” Complicite theater company’s THE ENCOUNTER comes to Broadway this fall in a strictly limited engagement after enormously acclaimed runs in London, Edinburgh and beyond. Conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, this is an utterly mesmerizing play that the The Daily Mail says is “unlike any other theatrical experience.” And The Daily Telegraph calls it “spellbinding.”
Simon McBurney
Simon Montagu McBurney, OBE Aug 1957 is an English actor, writer and director. He is the founder and artistic director of the Théâtre de Complicité, London. He has had roles in the films The Manchurian Candidate, Friends with Money, The Golden Compass, The Duchess, Robin Hood, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Magic in the Moonlight, The Theory of Everything and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.
McBurney is a founder and artistic director of the UK-based theatre company Complicite, which performs throughout the world. He directed their productions of Street of Crocodiles (1992); The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol (1994), which was adapted from the John Berger trilogy Into Their Labors; To the Wedding (another Berger collaboration); Mnemonic (1999); The Elephant Vanishes (2003); A Disappearing Number (2007); A Dog’s Heart (2010); and The Master and Margarita (2011).
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