REVIEW: Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers

Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Could you please scan this barcode to participate in the interactive element of the show?’ the ticket officer asks as the audience arrives for Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers.

Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Could you please scan this barcode to participate in the interactive element of the show?’ the ticket officer asks as the audience arrives for Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Immersive theatre company Darkfield have created three outstanding experience performances which interrogate these questions head on.

Reading Time: 2 minutesengaging, enchanting and vibrant” Created and directed by Kuik Swee Boon, founder of Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company, in collaboration with Malaysian sound artist Kent Lee, Searching Blue is a site-specific physical performance exploring spirituality, community, the relationship between human…

Reading Time: 2 minutesCome for the tricks, stay for the theatre, leave questioning reality There’s something wonderfully childlike about sitting inches away from a magician. You know you’re being deceived, you know there has to be a perfectly logical explanation,…

Reading Time: 2 minutesUnique and thought-provoking, but this voyeuristic promenade piece often falls short of the scope it aims for.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA vibrant new production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the Globe Theatre becomes a space for communal celebration under starry, summer skies.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA lavish, wine-soaked plunge into bohemian Paris, Chat Noir! is immersive theatre at its most playful, provocative and joyfully unrestrained. From the moment velvet curtains part and candlelit tables flicker into view, Chat Noir! invites its audience not just to watch,…

Reading Time: 2 minutesDante or Die’s I Do, revived as part of the company’s 20th anniversary season and presented in partnership with the Barbican, is an immersive theatre experience that places audiences directly inside the emotional pressure cooker of a wedding day.

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Terry O'Donovan, co-creator (alongside Dapha Attias) of I Do, which returns on a UK tour in 2026 to mark the 20th birthday of Dante or Die. This hugely successful immersive hit, with text by Chloë Moss, celebrates the beautiful mess of human connection — an intricate portrait of love and fear, told through Dante or Die’s signature blend of intimacy, detail, and cinematic theatricality.

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Ariel De la Garza Davidoff. Co-developed by Ariel with Michal Vojtech and Pierre Albert Ollivier, L’Indiscipline is a collaborative response to archival material on Charcot’s lectures and case studies.