I’d heard good things about this show from it’s time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival so thought as I had to come to London anyway for a meeting I could make the most of the visit and experience Séance.
The show takes place inside a shipping container with nothing but 20 seats, a table and a pair of headphones per person hanging on the wall. You are told very little about what will happen adding to the anticipation.
Once you are seated with headphones in place the room is plunged into darkness. As you sit there in the pitch black you start to hear things, it sounds like someone enters the room. Do they or is it just in your ears? This play on the senses continues to develop as you loose all sense of what is real and make believe.
The line between what is real and what is fake is well and truly blurred. The experience would make anyone doubt there own perceptions.
Unfortunately when I went through Séance there was only two of us in the room. I feel that having a larger audience would make the experience even more immersive and believable.
Overall the performance is definitely worth a visit and is sure to make you question reality.
Séance takes place at the Vault Festival near Waterloo Station in London with various performances from 23rd January to 17th March.
