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Complicite and Curran present The Encounter - Streaming Online

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Following the 2016/17 success of Complicité's multi award-winning THE ENCOUNTER, including a 2 week limited engagement at the Curran, the production will be available exclusively online again for one week during the Covid19 lockdown. As one of Complicité's partners across the globe we welcome you to join us as we host the production.

THE ENCOUNTER online is supported by The Space, is free to watch and will be available from May 15 at 11am until May 22 at 2pm PT. Please revisit this page on May 15 at 11am and you will be able to access THE ENCOUNTER, streaming online.

AUDIENCES WILL NEED TO WEAR HEADPHONES TO EXPERIENCE THE SHOW'S EXTRAORDINARY BINAURAL SOUND DESIGN (3D AUDIO). ANY HEADPHONES YOU HAVE WILL WORK, BUT PLAYING THE FILM OUT OF SPEAKERS WILL NOT GIVE THE SAME EFFECT.
Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, THE ENCOUNTER follows National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre as he finds himself lost in a remote area of Brazil in 1969, which leads to a startling encounter that is to change his life. Each seat comes equipped with a pair of headphones. Put them on and experience ground-breaking sound design - plugging into the power of the imagination, and engaging you in new and breathtaking ways as McBurney leads you on an epic journey.

Threading scenes of his own life with details of McIntyre's journey, Simon McBurney incorporates objects and sound effects into this solo performance to evoke the depths of the Amazon rainforest. His storytelling is served by the enveloping presence of binaural technology. The show's ground-breaking sound design, by multi Olivier Award Winner Gareth Fry (HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD), is transmitted to the audience through headphones and plugs into the power of the imagination, questioning our perceptions of time and our own consciousness. Wearing headphones to watch the broadcast brings this immersive experience into people's homes in a unique way.

THE ENCOUNTER, inspired by the novel Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in 2015 and has since toured Australia, Europe (including eight weeks at the Barbican, London) and the USA (including a limited run at the Curran and a Broadway transfer to the John Golden Theatre, New York).

"We are, as a consequence of this pandemic, bodily cut off from one another. Disconnected. Isolated. But perhaps this sense of our separation one from another, is simply a heightening of what we felt before this all began. We are thinking now, not only about how long this will last, but also what happens on the other side. To reconnect we need, perhaps, to learn to listen more closely. To each other. To our communities. To other cultures. To nature itself.

THE ENCOUNTER is at its heart a story about 'listening', not 'hearing' but listening; to other, older narratives which, at the deepest level, form who we are, and if we do, we can imagine how we can 'begin' again."

Simon McBurney, Complicité Artistic Director
Following the 2016/17 success of Complicité's multi award-winning THE ENCOUNTER, including a 2 week limited engagement at the Curran, the production will be available exclusively online again for one week during the Covid19 lockdown. As one of Complicité's partners across the globe we welcome you to join us as we host the production.

THE ENCOUNTER online is supported by The Space, is free to watch and will be available from May 15 at 11am until May 22 at 2pm PT. Please revisit this page on May 15 at 11am and you will be able to access THE ENCOUNTER, streaming online.

AUDIENCES WILL NEED TO WEAR HEADPHONES TO EXPERIENCE THE SHOW'S EXTRAORDINARY BINAURAL SOUND DESIGN (3D AUDIO). ANY HEADPHONES YOU HAVE WILL WORK, BUT PLAYING THE FILM OUT OF SPEAKERS WILL NOT GIVE THE SAME EFFECT.
Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, THE ENCOUNTER follows National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre as he finds himself lost in a remote area of Brazil in 1969, which leads to a startling encounter that is to change his life. Each seat comes equipped with a pair of headphones. Put them on and experience ground-breaking sound design - plugging into the power of the imagination, and engaging you in new and breathtaking ways as McBurney leads you on an epic journey.

Threading scenes of his own life with details of McIntyre's journey, Simon McBurney incorporates objects and sound effects into this solo performance to evoke the depths of the Amazon rainforest. His storytelling is served by the enveloping presence of binaural technology. The show's ground-breaking sound design, by multi Olivier Award Winner Gareth Fry (HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD), is transmitted to the audience through headphones and plugs into the power of the imagination, questioning our perceptions of time and our own consciousness. Wearing headphones to watch the broadcast brings this immersive experience into people's homes in a unique way.

THE ENCOUNTER, inspired by the novel Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in 2015 and has since toured Australia, Europe (including eight weeks at the Barbican, London) and the USA (including a limited run at the Curran and a Broadway transfer to the John Golden Theatre, New York).

"We are, as a consequence of this pandemic, bodily cut off from one another. Disconnected. Isolated. But perhaps this sense of our separation one from another, is simply a heightening of what we felt before this all began. We are thinking now, not only about how long this will last, but also what happens on the other side. To reconnect we need, perhaps, to learn to listen more closely. To each other. To our communities. To other cultures. To nature itself.

THE ENCOUNTER is at its heart a story about 'listening', not 'hearing' but listening; to other, older narratives which, at the deepest level, form who we are, and if we do, we can imagine how we can 'begin' again."

Simon McBurney, Complicité Artistic Director
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