Yorkshire Art Journal

Immersive theatre is a newish-variant theatrical experience that was brought into being by London-based theatre group ‘Punchdrunk’ around fifteen years ago. Even though immersive productions are happening with some regularity in West Yorkshire (other Leeds-based companies include ‘Slung Low’ and ‘Invisible Flock’), they’re not yet widely known. Lord Whitney’s recent ‘The Wood Beneath the World’ and ‘The Weather Machine’ by David Shearing and Company are typical of the form in that they offer fragmentary and impressionistic, […]