Today was the second immersive performance, this one a pulic performance in London. Not a murder mystery I hasten to add!
A SHUNT performance, advertised by the National Theatre and staged in a National Theatre building, this performance was certainly one to see, but not for the faint of heart and I would definitely recomend not to see it alone!
I will not give too much away and risk spoiling it for a potential audience member, but there was a good blend of the live and the digital, and of humour and fear. It played on some of the most primal fears that we have, in very obvious ways for the most part but in the build to the climax a very subtle sense of threat so that even while you are almost expecting a frightening climax though you have no idea what it will be, and when it arrives you have been relaxed by the humour enough that while you are expecting it, it is still a very frightening experience.
I will not give too much away and risk spoiling it for a potential audience member, but there was a good blend of the live and the digital, and of humour and fear. It played on some of the most primal fears that we have, in very obvious ways for the most part but in the build to the climax a very subtle sense of threat so that even while you are almost expecting a frightening climax though you have no idea what it will be, and when it arrives you have been relaxed by the humour enough that while you are expecting it, it is still a very frightening experience.
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