Review: EULOGY by DARKFIELD
- Immersive Rumours
- Oct 9
- 2 min read
Updated: 3 days ago
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
Sitting upon a single pillow inside individual laundry roll cages, EULOGY has audience members exploring the endless corridors and rooms of a labyrinthine hotel. As always in a DARKFIELD show, they're in total darkness and wearing headphones, but the show's opening moments offer up a mechanic not present in either COMA or FLIGHT - the ability to respond to questions with simple answers, picked up through a microphone on each audience member's headphones.
Accompanying each audience member on their audio-based journey is their assigned Companion, who both 'moves' them through the space and offers reassurances and guidance throughout (all delivered through whispers). In typical DARKFIELD fashion, exactly what's going on within the hotel is never made explicitly clear. All of the hotel's companions appear to be racing each other to get to the hotel's deeper levels as quickly as possible, but exactly what's required and involved remains elusive throughout. Try as you might to wrap your head around what's going on, you're always on the back foot, even though you're meant to be in control of your journey.
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
On a technical level, EULOGY does an incredible job of immersing you in the show's imaginary world. As you descend deeper and deeper into the subterranean hotel, your laundry cage gently vibrates, and the sound of lift doors opening is accompanied by a gust of air, signifying your arrival in another part of the hotel. While comments from your companion and other hotel staff about how the air gets thicker the deeper you go, thankfully, aren't recreated, the cumulative effect of the binaural audio and pre-recorded performances certainly makes it feel like it is. The mind's a crazy thing...
★★★½
This review of EULOGY is from DARKFIELD's London residency at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in October 2025. For more information on DARKFIELD and their upcoming shows, visit darkfield.org
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