Time Travellers’ Ball to open The Buzz
London’s first ever purpose-built immersive theatre venue, The Buzz, will open with The Time Travellers’ Ball this November.
The Buzz
New immersive theatre space to be launched in London
The Buzz, thought to be the UK’s first purpose-built immersive theatre space is set to launch in Southwark in London in November. Building has begun on The Buzz as part of the popular Mercato Metropolitano, a market-style complex of bars and restaurants in Newington Causeway, opposite the current site of Southwark Playhouse and close to Elephant & Castle tube station. The project is a collaboration between immersive theatre and production professionals ebp, who were behind the Olivier-nominated immersive show Alice’s Adventures Underground, and Limelight Productions which specialises in stage adaptations of TV and literary brands such as Peppa Pig. They want this fully flexible performing arts space to “provide leading theatre creatives with a space to grow ideas on a blank canvas”. The Buzz aims to be a community hub for theatre makers, local students and the community alike. Alongside The Buzz, there will be a new bar, The Buzz … Read more
