Visitors

The show is beautifully set up with clear and precise instructions on how to arrange your very personalised listening experience and create a truly enveloping and engaging scenario. The audience is prompted to carefully choose a location which effectively produces an eerie atmosphere where the characters are invited into your home and, especially, into your psyche. 

Visitors begins with a dead couple introducing themselves into your personal space while looking for a temporary solution to their permanent condition; “We didn’t know where else to go…” The subtle shifts in the quality and crispness of the sound is very suggestive and the languid tone of the performers is very hypnotic. 

The show explores the irrepressible desire to touch which is a very fitting theme for COVID times where keeping our distance from others has become a difficult and prolonged reality to accept. What better way to emphasise this than to conjure up two ethereal characters and allow them to touch the audience through an intense, sensory experience.

Visitors builds on the success of a repertoire of earlier immersive theatre experiences and follows a first episode, titled Double. The company is renowned for touring shipping container experiences: Seance, Flight and Coma and have responded to the restrictions imposed on their work by the pandemic by pivoting to this audio experience.

The shows are delivered at set times and dates so that audiences experience the show in pairs, replicated in hundreds of rooms across the world. According to producer, Amy Johnson, it is much like going to the cinema for a screening or a theatre for a play. However, the audience may find this experience quite different and even more unique as they are more physically and psychically connected to the characters.

Patricia Di Risio 

https://www.darkfield.com.au/radio