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The Encounter
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McBurney Simon / McIntyre Loren / Popescu Petru
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Nick Hern Books
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2016
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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. Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu, The Encounter traces McIntyres journey into the depths of the Amazon rainforest, incorporating innovative technology into a solo performance to build a shifting world of sound. The Encounter opened at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2015 performed by Simon McBurney, and received its London premiere at the Barbican in February 2016 before embarking on a world tour. Masterful storytelling from a man and a company who are incapable of remaining within known theatrical boundaries - Independent The stuff of a twisting, turning, thoroughly engrossing fairytale... McBurney captures the metaphysical spirit - as well as the pulse-quickening heart - of the experience with this head-turning, spellbinding show - Telegraph The effect is a soundcloud of a process, in which fact and fiction, past and present, research and production intermingle, spinning a story out of the air - Variety In a solo performance made with many people... [McBurney] pulls the thread of a story from out of the noise of contemporary western life and the sounds of the jungle to create a meditation on interconnectedness, perception and time - Guardian The Encounter is a tour de force that shows contemporary theatre at its most immersive and thought-provoking - Financial Times.

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Inspired by the novel

Amazon Beaming

by Petru Popescu

The Encounter

Complicite/Simon McBurney

Contents

Directed and performed by

Simon McBurney

Co-director

Kirsty Housley

Design

Michael Levine

Sound

Gareth Fry

with

Pete Malkin

Lighting

Paul Anderson

Projection

Will Duke

Associate Director

Jemima James

Production Manager

Niall Black

Company Stage Manager

Caroline Moores

Assistant Stage Manager

Joanne Woolley

Sound Operators

Helen Skiera

and

Ella Wahlstrm

Sound Supervisor

Guy Coletta

Production Engineer

David Gregory

Stage Supervisor

Matt Davis

Projection Supervisor

Sam Hunt

Lighting Supervisor

Laurence Russell

Design Assistant

Lauren Tata

Artistic Collaborators

David Annen

Simon Dormandy

Naomi Frederick

Victoria Gould

Richard Katz

Tim McMullan

Tom Morris

and

Saskia Reeves

Associate Producer

Poppy Keeling

Producer

Judith Dimant

The Encounter

Simon McBurney Gianmarco Bresadola

Complicite

The Encounter

was originally co-produced with Edinburgh

International Festival, the Barbican London, Onassis Cultural Centre

Athens, Schaubhne Berlin, Thtre Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick

Arts Centre.

It was first performed at the Edinburgh International Festival on

8 August 2015, before touring to Lausanne, Bristol and Warwick.

In 2016

The Encounter

played at the Barbican London, HOME

Manchester, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, Brighton Festival,

Oxford Playhouse, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna Festival, Holland

Festival, Printemps des Comdiens, Montpellier and The Fourvire

Nights, Lyon.

Simon McBurney Sarah Ainslie

There was always the same question when opening

the unknown: What to do with it?

Thoughts, thoughts. Like spaceships, whirling

somewhere in a sort of suborbital space. Lying in

his hammock, shivering from the cold and hearing

the sounds made by the tribespeople who were still

awake, McIntyre was aware of a subsphere of his

mind in which a different species of mental

processes, less explicit and formal, were forever

meeting, colliding, mixing. The tribe he had just

encountered was part of them.

Petru Popescu

from

Amazon Beaming

Simon McBurney Robbie Jack

Petru Popescu

Author of

Amazon Beaming

Ive always been fascinated with who we are as humans. But I grew

up in Communist Romania. Dreams of exploration, of faraway lands

or of the wilds of the mind were drastically discouraged in

Communism.

In time, I became a turbulent dissident writer, then I ran away to

America. Among my first writings in English, I co-wrote the movie

The Last Wave

, which dealt with an encounter of modern man and

tribal man, in Australia. It became clear to me that Id escaped from

my locked-in homeland carrying a

dream of encounters

with pretty

much any human, anywhere.

In the late 1980s, as I was sailing up the Amazon River boom! in

the city of Manaus I met Loren McIntyre, the first Western discoverer

of the Amazon Rivers source.

Loren was a traveller and

National Geographic

photographer. We

became friends and he told me how he was captured in 1969 by the

Mayoruna tribe, at that time thought to be extinct. Loren had

rediscovered the cat people, but without a compass or any other

instrument and speaking no common language, he remained

virtually imprisoned by them for weeks. As they trekked upriver

together, Loren witnessed a unique Mayoruna ritual: the tribesmen

burned their belongings in order to go back in time, both

chronologically they really thought time would run backwards

and closer to the source of the river, which for them was Times

own beginning. Belongings meant the present, and the present

meant the oil prospectors who invaded their grounds and were

erasing their tribal life.

The embers of our original fire are lit inside all of us. Blow on those

embers; our flesh will awake and rise and dance in kinship like the

early sapiens. The peaceful relay race from one man to another to

another, thats what made us human.

All this may sound too prophetic and philosophical when I first fell

in love with Lorens story, it really was for its adventurous scenes,

copious and various enough to fill the thick book I would eventually

write. Simon McBurney read that book in 1994 and remained so

beguiled that years later he decided to seek the stage rights for it.

And how are you going to tell this story on stage? I asked him, as I

couldnt see how Simon would pour the Amazon waters across the

stage in front of a live audience.

He wasnt sure yet, he replied.

Loren had trusted me with the book, I reminded myself. It was my

turn now to trust the new relay runner.

In August 2015, I sat in a theatre at the Edinburgh Festival and along

with the whole audience I put on a pair of headphones A moan of

rainforest, enormous, ingenious, stylised and yet so real that I felt I

was crawling with jungle bugs, flowed out of the headphones and

conquered my brain. And the actor/director, alone; he played Loren,

he played headman Barnacle and interpreter Cambio, he played the

deluging skies above soaked treetops and the stifling hot air on my

own sweating skin, he played Lorens capture and discovery of the

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