The real world is still very scary. Forget to start some fierce horror movie: Reading daily headlines is enough to scream anyone. All the same, I could not oppose doubling on fear factor and this week was checking a terrible, immersive new art experience opened in New York City.
Through October in shedShow, titled Viola’s roomDirected by Felix Barrett and built by Panchdank, behind the award winning theater company No sleepAn interactive, an hour -long journey, in which guests weave barefoot through dark rooms and halls (by designer Casey J. Andrews), while a joy describes a wisdom based on the story of Helna Bonham Carter 1901. Chand Das Through the headphones provided, from the pain, pain. Even with a surviving actor or jumping intimidation, it makes it an intensity effective-even some poetic-house-house experience.
When I arrived for my scheduled time slot, I was surprised to know that there was only another brave soul in my group. ,Viola’s room Designed to be experienced by more than six people at a time.) Our instructions were quite simple: don’t lose each other’s vision, and follow the twinkling lights from space to space. (I was happy to push my partner forward.)
In the first place – a teenage girl’s bedroom, its walls are adorned with zucchini and Buffy to vampire murderers The poster -corner instructs us to lie down because she begins to tell the gothic story of a princess that disappears from her palace, leaves her prince, and mysteriously travels at night. Over time, the room around us was immersed in darkness, the only light coming from inside a blanket fort in the corner. When, with suspicion, we creeped that fort, we immediately entered a brand-new place: a maze of hallway which was rowed with ghostly, wrapped white sheets.
As Carter’s statement moves forward, he describes the dynasty of the princess in an enchanted and inauspicious forest – as we too, were sometimes taken through more other settings. Walking barefoot, we crossed areas that alternately felt like grass, sandy and concrete, in our surroundings, from the landscape of a forest to a high -roofed chapel was characterized by a glass windows stained, which was suffering from a blurred light. Another room with a giant dinner table had balloons of lining on the ceiling, although their wires in the dark felt more like vines, or even Spiderwebs.
