[Misc] Immersive theatre - brilliant or bolleaux?

[Goldstone1976]

My partner and I went to the latest PunchDrunk show, The Burnt City, last night.

+ves: a lot. Brilliant sets across 100k sq ft; lots to explore, real immersion (an actor engaged with me directly for 5 mins), brilliant dancing, brilliant music, left feeling like I’d had an experience.

-ves: I had not a bloody clue about what the plot was - people running around all the time back and forth made it impossible to understand the story. I’m guessing there was one.

I enjoyed it, but it ain’t like a normal theatre trip.

 

[Rowdey]

A few of us did Secret Cinema - Empire Strikes Back. Absolutely brilliant. Like all things, throw yourself into it, get fully dressed up and play cards with Lando, ask Chewey for help, buy a shed load of booze from the Cantina (parking your pint on a life size crashed speeder on Tatooine) and watch the whole film on a jumbo screen, while some scenes are parallel acted out at the same time - Quality..!

 

[Machiavelli]

Depends how well they're done. Brighton Festival has featured a fair few of these over the years, many from dreamthinkspeak, who have contrived to put on some brilliant productions -- The Cherry Orchard in the old Coop building on London Road -- alongside the utterly dull and predictable, which is the only way to describe 2022's offering.

 

[dolphins]

Depends how well they're done. Brighton Festival has featured a fair few of these over the years, many from dreamthinkspeak, who have contrived to put on some brilliant productions -- The Cherry Orchard in the old Coop building on London Road -- alongside the utterly dull and predictable, which is the only way to describe 2022's offering.

I saw that production at the old Co-op and still occasionally think about it - not least, how bonkers some bits were!

 

[vegster]

Depends how well they're done. Brighton Festival has featured a fair few of these over the years, many from dreamthinkspeak, who have contrived to put on some brilliant productions -- The Cherry Orchard in the old Coop building on London Road -- alongside the utterly dull and predictable, which is the only way to describe 2022's offering.

Mrs V dragged me along to see The Cherry Orchard at that old Co-Op, I still have absolutely no idea what it was all about. So as a method of conveying a story/plot it was a complete waste of time. In fact I sped up our journey towards the end as I had had enough of polystyrene blowing about.

 

[Wozza]

My partner and I went to the latest PunchDrunk show, The Burnt City, last night.

+ves: a lot. Brilliant sets across 100k sq ft; lots to explore, real immersion (an actor engaged with me directly for 5 mins), brilliant dancing, brilliant music, left feeling like I’d had an experience.

-ves: I had not a bloody clue about what the plot was - people running around all the time back and forth made it impossible to understand the story. I’m guessing there was one.

I enjoyed it, but it ain’t like a normal theatre trip.

I'm going tomorrow night.

The story is based on Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Euripides’ Hecuba. I've been studying in advance. (Well, reading a synopsis)

Quite different to Secret Cinema. Done loads of those, although they're going slightly downhill (and getting more expensive) imo.

 

[Wozza]

For the record, it was... bolleaux imo. Great potential but too vast, too confusing.

 

[Triggaaar]

A few of us did Secret Cinema - Empire Strikes Back. Absolutely brilliant. Like all things, throw yourself into it, get fully dressed up and play cards with Lando, ask Chewey for help, buy a shed load of booze from the Cantina (parking your pint on a life size crashed speeder on Tatooine) and watch the whole film on a jumbo screen, while some scenes are parallel acted out at the same time - Quality..! View attachment 156035

Has NSC reached peak geek?

No offence meant, that's my favourite film