Darkfield Radio: Double, Visitors and Eternal

Blackout theatre specialists Darkfield are ever less escapable at the Fringe, with their shows Eulogy and Arcade coming back for runs at different venues this year. And then there’s Darkfield Radio: if we’re reading it right it’s so called because it’s a ‘pure’ headphones show and lacks any real set beyond a blackout. Which is fine really: the headphones plus blackout are the main bit of Darkfield shows, and this format actually allowed for ticketholders to choose one of three different pieces of the same 25 minute length (a bit like changing between channels at a silent disco). The pieces are Double, about the rare phenonomenon that is Capgras syndrome, wherein you think a loved one has been replaced by an evil imposter; Visitors, about why the dead find no comfort in the land of the living; and Eternal, about the price of endless life.