Five new immersive events in London

Scripts for Supper: The Wind in the Willows

If you’re a busy bookworm who spends hours devouring literature, then why not take your love of reading up a notch with an immersive, outdoor literature-themed dining experience? Scripts for Supper brings Kenneth Grahame's timeless novel, The Wind in the Willows. With actors doubling up as waiters, guests can eat and be merry amongst their favourite anthropomorphised animals: Mole, Ratty, Toad and Badger, in three bucolic London settings.

The Lost Estate presents The Lost Love Speakeasy

Are you a glittering flapper, a big-spending tycoon or an offbeat bohemian? Choose your role at the Lost Love Speakeasy, London's new 1920s immersive theatre experience. It is summer, 1929. The end of the Jazz Age looms like an impending shadow and you are about to embark upon a journey from the soirées of New York to the fishing villages of the Deep South.

The Swell Mob, COLAB Factory

The Swell Mob, an ‘explosive immersive theatrical experience’, invites audience members to dress up and enter the hedonistic world of a 19th century taproom for an evening of debauched fun. Guests are invited to dance, drink, sing and gamble with a motley crew of characters straight out of the Victorian underworld.

ANNA, National Theatre

This new play at the National Theatre uses headsets to transport audience member to Cold War Berlin. Audience members eavesdrop on newlyweds Anna and Hans. Listening through headsets reminds of how the Stasi constantly breathed down the necks of the populace through a system of total surveillance, perfect strangers regularly listening to private conversations.

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of The Worlds: An Immersive Experience

After taking us deep into the realm of lucid dreaming in Somnai dotdotdot theatre company return with a new site-specific adventure based on Jeff Wayne's bestselling album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.

Audiences will be transported to Victorian England, as depicted by H. G. Wells in cult sci-fi novel The War of the Worlds; for 90 minutes, normal life will be replaced with the chaos of martian invasion.