Complicite

Complicité returns to the Barbican, London in 2018 with Simon McBurney’s spell-binding solo performance, The Encounter following an acclaimed Broadway run and global tour. The Company was last seen at the Barbican in 2017 with Beware of Pity, a co-production with The Schaubühne, Berlin.

The Encounter (premièred at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2015) tells the true story of National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre lost in a remote area of Brazil in 1969, which leads to a startling encounter that was to change his life.

In this solo performance, Simon McBurney threads scenes of his own life with details of McIntyre’s journey plunging the audience into a visceral inner voyage. As McIntyre’s mesmerising tale reaches its climax, this extraordinary performance asks some of the most urgent questions of today: about how we live and what we believe to be true.

This multi award-winning production (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, The Stage, The Evening Standard and Tony Award winner) uses a ground-breaking binaural sound design to plug-in to the power of the imagination, transmitted direct to the audience through provided headphones.