On a street tucked down the side of Paddington station, a group of people mill about, squinting into the early evening glare. Some murmur frantically, some emit gleeful giggles, others remain silent and dumbfounded.
It's no surprise that they're looking startled and disorientated, for like Lucy returning from Narnia, they've arrived back in this spot after slipping through a portal and spending the three hours prior in another world. They've been wandering alone through a vast desert wilderness, a seedy movie studio, a dimly lit forest and a maze of more than a hundred rooms that you'd never know were hidden behind the tall red corrugated doors of this old London sorting office.
It's a world created by Felix Barrett and his Punchdrunk team who have a reputation for building unnerving immersive theatrical experiences. The Drowned Man, which is the company's first large-scale London production for several years, is based around Woyzeck, Büchner's unfinished masterpiece about poverty, wealth, status and jealousy.
By: Katie Collins,
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/18/punchdrunk-the-drowned-man
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