Immersive theatre in London

In many ways, Punchdrunk’s new show ‘The Burnt City’ is a lot like Punchdrunk’s old shows: you put on a spooky mask; you wander through a dark, cavernous, hyper-detailed world full of eerie hidden rooms; you follow sexy dancer-slash-actors around as they enact the show’s diffuse plot; you spend an improbable amount of time trying to find a huge but almost impossible-to-locate bar…

This immersive adventure in the company of everyone's favourite Time Lord was first announced in a simpler era. But as you’d imagine with The Doctor, Tom Maller’s fully BBC licensed production has been made future proof, ie it’ll open in socially distanced form, though fingers crossed that can be dropped as of June 21.

Despite being an unofficial tribute to John Cleese's legendary '70s sitcom, this interactive dinner-show captures the programme's spirit surprisingly well.

From relatively humble beginnings at the 2017 Vaults Festival, The Guild of Misrule’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal novella has become the longest-running immersive theatre show in London.

This lavish new immersive show marks a major new attraction at the Tower of London, which seems to have spared no expense in crafting an experience that’s presumably intended to be with us for some time…

For the price of a ticket to ‘Mamma Mia! The Party’, an immersive Abba-themed dinner experience set in a ropey taverna on an idyllic Greek island, you could fly out to an actual idyllic Greek island and probably find a ropey taverna playing Abba songs…

Why yes, this is a bizarre, immersive mash-up of Disney’s ‘Mulan’ and Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge’.

This theatrical immersive gig experience essentially sees you journey through a series of rooms in One Night Records’ cavernous space near London Bridge, with each featuring a different band playing a different style of US music, from ’20s jazz to ’50s rock’n’roll. 

In a year that will feature both final series of historical gangster drama ‘Peaky Blinders’ and an official dance-theatre prequel called ‘The Redemption of Thomas Shelby’, here comes another official tie-in…