Friday 4 July 2014

Catch this if you can...

This weekend is your absolute last chance to get to see The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable, the latest promenade-style theatre production by Punchdrunk, the doyens of immersive theatrical experiences. If you're quick, there may be a handful of tickets left, bookable here through the National Theatre's website. They don't come cheap, but I can assure you it will be worth every penny.

Wearing carnival-style masks to maintain their anonymity, audience members are left to wander at their own will around the four floors of an abandoned building next to Paddington station, which has been transformed into a mysterious 1960s Los Angeles film complex named Temple Studios. As the NT website says, "Your curiosity is key. The more you explore, the richer your experience will be. Delve in, be bold, and immerse yourself".

The show is a reworking of Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck, brought forward to the 20th century to explore "the darkness of the Hollywood dream, where celluloid fantasy meets desperate reality, and certainty dissolves into a hallucinatory world". As you roam around the building, you may only catch snippets of scenes and glimpses of characters, but your experience will be no less astonishing for that. You may be fortunate enough to be taken aside by one of the characters for a unique one-on-one experience.

And if you are really lucky, and a little cheeky, you may even leave with a tin of peas.

Intrigued? You'll have to catch one of the remaining performances and explore yourself to find out more...

http://punchdrunk.com/

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