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July 2024

  • Attention to detail … Rachael Oriowo (Enitan) and Julian Smith (Ged) in Enitan’s Game.

    Play time
    Enitan’s Game review – warm-hearted children’s show from Punchdrunk Enrichment

    Touching on migration stories, memory, grief and community, the story of a grandfather’s life told through a series of cryptic riddles is a charming experience

June 2024

  • An audience member wearing headphones listens to the narration for Viola's Room

    The week in theatre: Viola’s Room; A View from the Bridge – review

  • Teenage kicks … an audience member in Viola’s Room.

    Viola’s Room review – Punchdrunk’s gothic tale of puzzling wonder

March 2024

  • ‘A bedtime story’ … the artwork for Viola's Room.

    ‘Laced with fear and a lot of fun’: Punchdrunk announce new ‘slumber party’ show

    Company founder Felix Barrett says Viola’s Room, written by Daisy Johnson, will be an audio-driven production perfect for date nights

February 2023

  • Farshid Rokey, Shamail Ali, Houda Echouafni and Ahmad Sakhi in The Boy With Two Hearts.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: The Boy With Two Hearts, Punchdrunk and more

    Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Billy Crystal’s musical about a fading comedian, a female Faustus and a revival of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate

December 2022

  • Samira Wiley (Angel), Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo (Delia), Sule Rimi (Sam) & Giles Terera (Guy) in Blues for an Alabama Sky. Photo by Marc Brenner 5602

    Observer critics' review of 2022
    Theatre: Susannah Clapp’s 10 best shows of 2022

    Thirties Harlem and the siege of Troy rocked, along with Joan of Arc, Orlando and the Ladies of Llangollen, to be greeted by funding cuts across the board

April 2022

  • Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City.

    The week in theatre: Punchdrunk: The Burnt City; Scandaltown

    The immersive theatre trailblazers return with an all-consuming vision of the siege of Troy
  • Down the rabbithole

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links Punchdrunk’s Burnt City to Patti Smith and John McEnroe?

    As the celebrated theatre group launches a new immersive show, follow it down the rabbit hole via Damon Albarn, Meryl Streep and Glenda Jackson
  • Terror and tragedy … Dafni Krazoudi in The Burnt City.

    Punchdrunk: The Burnt City review – spectacle eclipses story in siege of Troy epic

    This immersive retelling of Greek tragedies is stylish and atmospheric but lacks narrative momentum and its scattered scenes can be frustratingly arcane

March 2022

  • Blown away … The Burnt City.

    ‘Adrenaline-fuelled’: Punchdrunk return with the horrifically timely siege of Troy

    After almost a decade away, the world-conquering theatre rebels are back with The Burnt City, an epic take on the ultimate war story. We meet them at their cavernous new premises

October 2021

  • Barry Fitzgerald in Punchdrunk Enrichment’s The Lost Lending Library.

    Play time
    The Lost Lending Library review – immersive family show champions the magic of books

    Punchdrunk Enrichment’s site-specific project for children aged six to 11 turns a historic building into a secretive library

September 2021

  • Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City.

    Punchdrunk to stage epic ‘future noir’ drama in old London arms factory

    Dystopian Trojan war play The Burnt City will be company’s costliest and most ambitious immersive production

December 2020

  • The Roof

    Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
    All the world's a car park: theatre everywhere but on stage – in pictures

    Tristram Kenton gets out and about photographing theatre performances in unusual locations, in the latest selection from his archive

September 2020

  • ‘I’ve never stayed in character for such a long period of time’ … Jude Law, who stars in The Third Day.

    Jude Law: 'When I became a parent, I would cry at anything'

    As he plays a troubled dad trapped on a sinister island in The Third Day, the star reveals how the drama unlocked his deepest parenting fears – and shares his worries about its 12-hour, live-action section

June 2020

  • Playable shows … a masked audience watch Sleep No More in New York.

    Pokémon Go creator joins Punchdrunk theatre for interactive venture

    Immersive theatre company and augmented-reality game developer Niantic team up to explore ideas that fuse ‘physical and digital worlds’

February 2020

  • Naomie Harris in The Third Day

    Punchdrunk and Sky announce world's first immersive TV drama

    The Third Day, starring Jude Law and Naomie Harris, will be followed by a theatrical event by the world-renowned company

September 2019

  • Jerusalem, Mr Burns and Barbershop Chronicles

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    The 50 best theatre shows of the 21st century

    A hip-hop history lesson, a dizzy Dahl musical and a continent-hopping barbershop … we pick the finest new works of theatre since 2000

March 2019

  • Who would live in a house like this? ... Enda Walsh’s Rooms.

    The really empty space: do you need actors to make theatre?

    From Enda Walsh’s disembodied voices to a Royal Court escape room, experimental theatre is being made without performers

February 2019

  • Subplots … Sleep No More staged with Chinese twists in Shanghai.

    'Playable shows are the future': what Punchdrunk theatre learned from games

    When one critic hailed the company’s immersive show ‘game of the year’, founder Felix Barrett explored video games’ non-linear storytelling. Now he spies a new frontier for the stage

October 2018

  • Battersea Arts Centre

    Battersea Arts Centre seeks new artistic director after David Jubb stands down

    Jubb, who has spent 15 years in the role, is to leave the arts centre which has fully reopened after its fire three years ago
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