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Viola's Room - a barefoot walking simulator from the Punchdrunk interactive theatre company


A little over a year since I stepped into Punchdrunk's astonishing interactive theatre experience The Burnt City, the c…

I experienced The Burnt City, a nearly three-hour sprawling odyssey of mythical Greek storytelling and sacrifice played out over a series of cavernous spaces, just days after a particularly difficult moment in my life. Its structure was deliberately complex, a web of narrative performed by an enormous cast of actors and dancers moving around elaborate sets on a schedule that ran like clockwork, their stories intertwining at key moments and in specific spaces with explosively violent or strikingly intimate results. Newscast: PlayStation upsets VR fans as it kicks off this year's not-E3 hype cycle Watch on YouTube I deliberately knew nothing of Viola's Room before heading in, other than the advisories you must acknowledge when booking a ticket.

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