What links Punchdrunk’s Burnt City to Patti Smith and John McEnroe?

As the celebrated theatre group launches a brand new immersive present, comply with it down the rabbit gap by way of Damon Albarn, Meryl Streep and Glenda Jackson

The theatre company Punchdrunk has expanded what’s attainable on stage – and spawned many immersive imitators. All of the whereas, it’s reinvented basic texts in unusual settings, merging theatre, dance, movie and set up art, and leaving audiences dazzled and unsettled … and drained from all that strolling round. Its latest is The Burnt City, based mostly across the Trojan warfare, staged at its new London HQ.