Projects
PILGRIMS
PILGRIMS
PILGRIMS is an immersive, participatory audio experience inspired by a real 1960s bureau that gathered dreams to predict and avert disaster.
Audience members sit around the perimeter of a building drawn with light and choose to either watch or participate. If you agree to join in you’ll be asked to enter the building ... and the story. Walls shift, pathways open and close, the rooms rearrange themselves around you. There are no actors. There is no stage. There are only pilgrims.
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£50,000
We invite you into a collective premonition - cross the threshold and enter the story.
Aims of project
PILGRIMS invites you into a living premonition: a collective experiment in foresight, choice and responsibility.
If catastrophe can be foreseen, can its course be altered? Inspired by a real 1960s Premonitions Bureau that attempted to predict disasters through dreams.
Meet DARKFIELD
DARKFIELD
DARKFIELD produces innovative immersive 360-degree audio experiences at the forefront of technology and theatre. Working in complete darkness, DARKFIELD utilises striking sets, binaural sound and sensory effects to place each participant at the centre of intense, evolving narratives. The design of the shows is striking, rich, innovative and detailed: strange worlds that unfold and steal you away from reality. DARKFIELD is known for touring theatrical shows within custom-built shipping containers, and also for creating in-venue productions, installations and digital works that tour theatres, festivals and cultural spaces worldwide.
DARKFIELD has toured globally, reaching over 750,000 audience members across the UK, Asia, Australia and NZ, North America, Turkey and Mexico. The work has featured in major international film festivals including the BFI London Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Tribeca Festival, Raindance Film Festival and SXSW, and in 2021 won the Breakthrough Award from the Columbia University Digital Storytelling Lab in recognition of the year’s most innovative narrative.
Glen Neath
Co-Artistic Director
he/him
Glen Neath is a founder of DARKFIELD and has a background in writing: He writes novels and plays for radio, stage and unconventional spaces. Glen and David work closely together to create all of DARKFIELD’s shows.
David Rosenberg
Co-Artistic Director
he/him
David Rosenberg is a founder of DARKFIELD and has creating immersive theatre for over 25 years. Before founding DARKFIELD, David was a founding member of Shunt and is a pioneer in the use of binaural audio in live productions. Glen and David work closely together to create all of DARKFIELD’s shows.
Victoria Eyton
Snr Creative Producer & Creative Director
she/her
Victoria has worked with DARKFIELD across all projects, and has extensive experience working within large scale immersive theatre performance, with past experience working with Punchdrunk and ABBA Voyage. She is co-founder of Ida XR Studio.
Andrea Salazar
Exec Director & Production Oversight
She/Her
Lucas Leao
Production Manager
he/him
