Direct from London and an international tour, Complicite's acclaimed production ofThe Encounter, conceived, directed and performed by Simon McBurney, will play a limited engagement at Broadw…
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Simon McBurney and Complicite have made plays about many things " maths, circuses, immigration, Japan, old age " but, at core, they're all really about the same subject: storytelling. Their …
The Encounter is an adventure story which gets inside your head. Literally. Every member of the audience is issued with a set of headphones and using cutting edge audio technology we are tra…
By Emily Hardy The Encounter, Simon McBurney's spell-binding solo performance for Complicite, the big hit of last year's Edinburgh Festival, opens its UK tour at Home in Manchester. Threadin…
Like Simon McBurney at the beginning of each performance of The Encounter, I took a photo of the audience to prove that I
Join us at 7.30pm GMT on Tuesday 1 March for a live stream of The Encounter, Complicite and Simon McBurney's stunning show about a mind-blowing journey into the Amazon. The Encounter has sol…
In the play, by Simon McBurney at the Barbican Theater in London, audience members are asked to put on headphones and listen closely.
Favourite stage direction: “As the audience enters, it seems there is almost nothing on stage.”
Simon McBurney journeys up the Amazon into the heart of darkness and and finds light and enlightenment.
It's not too bold to say that The Encounter is out of this world. Simon McBurney's one-man show is simply like nothing you've ever experienced. And it is a total experience " it does feel li…
Barbican, LondonInspired by US photographer Loren McIntyre's experiences with Brazilian rainforest tribes, this transporting Complicite show is a triumph of sound designSimon McBurney is an …
Complicite theatre company's new play is an astonishing aural adventure into the rainforest
Actor and director Simon McBurney's one-man show has arrived in London after gathering plaudits in Edinburgh and elsewhere last year " before setting off again on a nationwide and European t…
McBURNEY ON, AND IN, THE BRAIN If there is any theatre artist reliably able to draw you into a world of disorientation, time-slip, near-death and a sense of licking hallucinogenic frogs in a…
When photographer Loren McIntyre travelled to the Javari valley it overturned everything he knew about the world. I'm retelling his journey with a microphone " you listen with headphonesComp…
Here's a quick roundup of stories you may have missed today. Matty Fresh Cuts Loose He may be a leading man now, but Matthew Morrison still knows how to cut loose like a real Broadway …
Who didn't see their first show until they were 20? Whose first crush was Jessica Rabbit? The men of the theatre industry reveal their firsts on the 1st.
Cristin Milioti, who stars in the new David Bowie and Enda Walsh musical Lazarus, appeared on NBC's "Late Night With Seth Meyers" to talk about the world premiere and her first…
Cristin Milioti stopped by last night's LATE NIGHT to talk about starring on the second season of FARGO, inspired by the film and her awkward encounter with David Bowie.
By Tim Hochstrasser Evocations of famous films can tip over into parody or unintended comedy very easily but thanks to the skill of the writing and the carefully graded, fully inhabited acti…