On a good night, theatre can make you see the world through new eyes. And, in the case of this revelatory new one-man show from Simon McBurney and his company Complicite, can make you hear the world through new ears too.
The Encounter, here as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, is an adaptation of Petru Popescu’s book Amazon Beaming, which tells the true story of how the American photo-journalist Loren McIntyre got stranded deep in the Amazon jungle in 1969 with an isolated tribe, the Mayoruna.
Yet “adaptation” feels too scrawny a word to capture quite what McBurney is up to here as finds a new slant on his career-long quest to slam together staging, storytelling, ideas and technology.
McBurney, beefy yet