Immersive theatre in London

Trying to write a review of ‘The Grand Expedition’ might well be a tremendous exercise in point-missing because Gingerline’s immersive dinner theatre show is all about the joyful thrill of surprise…

'The Great Gatsby' is now London’s longest running immersive theatre show…

Join a dissolute crew of Victorian ne'er do wells at this messy tribute to the world of the 1840s tap room. 'The Swell Mob' mixes pubby atmosphere with a knockabout collection of cabaret acts, puppetry, and clowning, all masterminded by a huge cast decked out in finest Victoriana. It comes to London's CoLab factory after a popular stint at the Edinburgh fringe last year. 

The next in line of London’s endless stream of immersive-dining-slash-theatre experiences is ‘The Murdér Express’, from Funicular productions, who’ve done a couple of similar shows at this same address over the last year…

Sip a pint and immerse yourself in some sticky-carpeted, gin-scented Soho history with this vintage play, performed in the pub it was written about. Keith Waterhouse's 1989 drama is set in Soho's Coach & Horses, a traditional haunt for journalists, and follows Jeffrey Bernard, a legendarily hard-drinking '80s hack. After getting accidentally locked in, he regales the audience with a series of increasingly rambling real-life anecdotes about illicit cat races, his tumultuous love life, and his struggles with alcoholism - and laments that his beloved Soho is changing.  'Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell' was a huge West End hit in the late '90s, when actor Peter O'Toole made the role his own. This revival is directed by James Hillier, who'll stage it in the Coach & Horses pub, in a production sparked by the growing threat developers pose to Soho's nightlife. Saturday night performances will be followed by late night lock-ins. 

Here’s the latest attempt to extract some liove mileage out of Wayne’s hugely successful 1978 prog rock concept album adaptation of HG Wells‘s sci-fi novel…

Dante or Die’s gorgeous site-specific show about grief and digitial afterlives is performed in a cafe…

After spending some time searching around for a venue (it was, ironically, deemed too noisy for Waterloo) Björn Ulvaeus’s immersive experience ‘Mamma Mia! The Party’ has finally found a home…

Sort of midway between the more terrifying end of immersive theatre and one of London’s ubiquitous escape games, ‘Variant 31’ is billed as ‘Europe’s largest immersive survival experience’…

Well you have to admire the chutzpah: the creators of long-running immersive London hit ‘The Great Gatsby’ have followed up with an interactive adptation of Jordan Belfort’s hit memoir ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’…