Hunted - COLAB theatre's new immersive action-thriller
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
COLAB Theatre is presenting Hunted, an intense theatrical experience in which audience members discover that they’ve been sheltered their whole lives and now must run for it..
Written by Bertie Watkin, Hunted starts at Waterloo Station and ends at a secret location in London Bridge and runs from October 11 to November 19, 2016.
If you ever felt like you’re being watched, that’s because you are. You are one of the most important people in the world and yet you’ve managed to live a peaceful life. That is because we have been protecting you but now our protection has been compromised.
This two-part performance for audiences of ten at a time takes the form of an undercover expedition in Waterloo followed by an adventure in London Bridge. It is an intense theatrical experience that involves audience members being tied up, chased and interrogated.
COLAB is an Immersive Theatre company creating new worlds and experiences to tell a story. Using buildings and locations around London and the UK, COLAB bring the untapped world around us alive with old, new and borrowed stories in worlds that take audiences back, forward and sideways in time.
Moving away from the idea that audiences have to have their experience based on interactions with performers, COLAB aims to create an environment where audience members become characters themselves, interacting with each other and creating their own experience.
Previous COLAB shows include Crooks and Fifth Column.
Artistic director Bertie Watkins says: “Immersive theatre is growing up. We created Hunted to put audiences in the middle of a narrative. It’s a low cost and intense show that makes the world evolve around audiences for an evening, rather than paying £75 to be part of a crowd. Every person that comes through the door is focused on; they have as much of a role in the story as the actors performing in front of them.”
Bertie Watkins and Joe Ball direct a cast that includes Ieuan Coombs, Peter Dewhurst, Lauren Gibson, Ben Hudson, Sarah Ratheram, Brendan O’Rourke, Oscar Russell and Jess White.
Hunted is suitable for ages 16+.
Tickets: £19.5o – available online at www.colabtheatre.co.uk/.
Times: Tuesday to Saturday, slots every half hour between 6.30pm and 10pm.