Director and start of "The Encounter"
Director and start of "The Encounter".
PROFILE
Simon McBurney
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FROM Simon McBurney
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'The Encounter' plays with audiences' perceptions and senses British theater company Complicite has a new show called “The Encounter,” running now at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. It’s inspired by the true story of a National Geographic photographer who got lost in a remote part of the Brazilian rainforest in 1969.
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