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Immersive Octopus' latest production, Room 13, which runs at Battersea Arts Centre until 1st November, blurs the line between fact and fiction. Inspired by the real-life fire that destroyed BAC's Grand Hall in March 2015, the immersive production imagines a far more sinister aftermath. According to the show's fictional backstory, in the aftermath of the fire, a sealed chamber that wasn't on any plans was discovered. Inside was something so disturbing that renovations were put

Tucked away in the far corner of Westfield London, wedged in between Marks & Spencer and MANGO, sits the entrance to Absurd City, the latest self-guided immersive art experience from Wake The Tiger. Set across a staggering 80,000 sq ft venue formerly occupied by Kidzania, the experience invites guests to become 'daytrippers' and explore every nook and cranny of the city's five distinct and highly detailed districts to their heart's content.

As competitive gaming experience Prison Island London prepares to celebrate its first birthday, the corridors and cells of its Holloway Road venue have found themselves playing host to the ghosts of several former prisoners as part of Prison Island Horror Story - a limited-time Halloween re-theme that adds potential jump scares and a sprinkling of extra tension to an already intense and fast-paced experience.

Larger Than Life: Starring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun and More is the latest immersive projection show to debut at Lightroom's flagship venue in King's Cross and traces the history of Aardman, the UK's most decorated animation studio. The fifty-minute-long show is made up of archive interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and bespoke stop-motion sequences and offers visitors a peek behind the curtain at how Aardman's work is created, one frame at a time.

After 17 years of scaring the fine folk of Dublin, Cork and Tralee, immersive horror experience The Nightmare Realm has travelled across the Irish Sea to the farthest reaches of Greenwich for its UK debut. With two headline attractions (Sundown Manor and Avery Hill Asylum), an immersive midway with roaming characters, and five intimate experiences for those lucky enough to stumble upon them, The Nightmare Realm has plenty to offer.

Theming a dining experience around London’s most immersive musical is no small thing. Can Covent Garden’s Balthazar capture the seedy decadence of Cabaret’s Weimar Berlin atmosphere?

Funicular Productions' The Murdér Express Part Deux - Jewel of the Empire, which runs out of the fictional Pedley Street Station near the very real Whitechapel station, is an immersive dining experience set onboard the show’s titular train. With a seasonal three-course meal, a cast of live actors, and a knowingly ridiculous whodunit, the two-hour-long romp sees guests and the train's eclectic cast of characters become prime suspects in a murder-mystery.

With the finale of last year's The Celebrity Traitors drawing in nearly 15 million viewers, it's fair to say that the smash-hit BBC TV series is the closest thing we've got nowadays to appointment viewing. The show's mix of deceit, betrayal and subterfuge has proved to be utterly captivating television, and has gone on to spawn versions in nearly forty countries around the globe. Our review of The Traitors: Anywhere.

Everest: The First Ascent is the latest immersive VR production from French producers Eclipso and Small Creative. Fresh off a debut at the Venice International Film Festival as part of Venice Immersive, the experience is now running alongside Titanic: Echos from the Past and Colosseum: The Legendary Arena at Eclipso's permanent Camden High Street venue. Across the 35-minute-long experience, visitors follow in the footsteps of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953 as they

Following its run at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year as part of the Immersive Competition, nilor's interactive courtroom dramedy GAWD v. The People arrives at Lightroom in King's Cross for a limited two-week run. Centred around GAWD, an omniscient AI judge with access to all of recorded history, the experience sees select audience members take on the role of defendants and attempt to justify humanity's continued existence against a parade of increasingly persuasive

Peaky Blinders Underworld, which is located a stone's throw from London Bridge station, is an immersive experience inspired by the hugely popular BBC series. Made up of a fully operational recreation of the Garrison Tavern (which is free to visit) and an hour-long immersive experience set in and amongst Small Heath (which requires pre-booking), Peaky Blinders Underworld invites guests to dust off their flat cap and help bolster the Shelby family's position as Birmingham's mos

Truthmachine, created by Australian collective Counterpilot, is an immersive social experiment in which an audience member is invited to take part in a lie detector test while a group of their peers look on and examine their physiological response to probing, and at times intrusive, questioning. Initially inspired by the first Trump presidency and the rise of fake news, Truthmachine looks to examine what we're willing to accept as fact and if such a thing can even exist in to

For local gossip Lydia - the protagonist of Dan McVey's A Foot is Not an Appropriate Prize for the Tombola - the discovery of a severed foot at the village fete is one of the most exciting things to ever happen in Greenwold. As a habitual nosy neighbour, she takes it upon herself to lead the investigation and, as is her civic duty as a parish councillor, question numerous residents on their recent whereabouts.

GANBA!!'s story revolves around the ninjas and ninjas-in-training of the Batsu Dojo, as they prepare to defend themselves against the evil Batsu no Akumav (Spirit of Punishment). Through a number of interactive challenges, the show's younger audience members (and occasionally, their grown-ups too) take on a series of light-hearted, comedic tasks.

As anyone who's ever experienced the drive back from Glastonbury on a Monday lunchtime can tell you, the worst part of going to a festival is the journey home. For Daisy, the protagonist of Soleil Kohl's interactive choose-your-own-adventure Don't Kill Daisy, this fact is taken to an extreme, as they find themselves in a time loop, doomed to repeat their trek home from Burning Man over and over again while being relentlessly pursued by a fedora-wearing Bad Guy.

In the opening moments of exit strategy's wonderfully stressful How to Win a Gameshow, the full legal name of an audience member is read aloud by the show's host (Marykate Glenn), and they're invited to the stage. How their name was found and why they were chosen is unknown.