Immersive Theatre

I was reading about a piece entitled Lullaby which was performed this past summer by a London company called Duckie and found this article about the it. Lullaby is a piece of immersive theatre, a style that I find really interesting while also intimidating and sometimes overwhelming. I actually feel just the same about it as the author of this article seems too, he talks about how the idea of immersive theatre really makes you want to go see a piece and become a part of the show but because of our inhibitions we also have a sort of fear about being a part of this style of show. The specific piece that he is talking about in the article, Lullaby, is an 10 and a half hour experience where you show up and are essentially serenaded to sleep. You then get breakfast and a shower the next morning. Although this must be a really bizarre experience I'm not sure I could pass it up if I had the opportunity to go, really how many times are you going to do that in your life? I'd be very interested to see how audiences reacted to this kind of piece though, how many people thought they would love it and ended up leaving after not being able to sleep in a huge room full of people? Or how many people attended the show reluctantly but found that they enjoyed it? I think that theatre in this style is very interesting, it has an ability to make the audience feel extremely vulnerable which, while not always comfortable, is interesting and enlightening. The link to the full article is below.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-features/8590262/Duckies-Lullaby-and-Punchdrunks-The-Crash-of-the-Elysium-preview.html