A haunted pub. A murdered bride. A family of secrets. A spooky basement. A priest and exorcism. A child’s life at stake. What’s not to love this Hallowe’entime for seekers of immersive theatre horror thrills? Flicker by COLAB delivers and then some. It’s probably worth mentioning head-on the Covid-19 logistics. COLAB are pretty old hands […]

‘The experience will begin on Zoom,‘ the email invitation reads, and apart from a few pointers about sharing your screen and checking passwords carefully, this was all my team and I had to go on when it came to knowing what to expect from the online immersive theatre / escape room / alternate reality game […]

Early in the hour-long audio experience that is Imaginarium, the faceless narrator remarks ‘this sounds [too much] like a guided meditation,’ when inviting us to hear the sea lapping at our beds. The implication is clear: this isn’t a guided meditation. But if it’s not that, what is it? I’m lying on my bed, in […]

The Coolidge Effect, a fifty-minute audio play exploring loneliness, separation and pornography is as close as I’ve come to the thrill of the theatre for months. Like many, I’ve felt starved of theatre over the lockdown period. Yes, NT At Home is great and all, and I love television as much as everyone, but it […]