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Punchdrunk has released new images of The Burnt City as the show enters its final eight weeks. Following a record-breaking eighteen months in London, the final performance of Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City will be held on 24 September 2023.

Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City. Photo by Julian Abrams

Opening in March 2022, the production has sold over 200,000 tickets. By the time it closes, the show will be the longest running mask show that the company has presented in London.

Over 600 people have worked on the show, making it the largest project in Punchdrunk’s history. The epic retelling of the end of the Trojan war, set between the neon-drenched backstreets of downtown Troy and the menacing but opulent shadow of Greece, is played out across two vast warehouse buildings. Part of the old Woolwich Arsenal, these buildings provide Punchdrunk with its first permanent home in London.

Punchdrunk’s The Burnt City. Photo...

Filming has wrapped on writer-director Georgia Parris’ feature debut.

Screen can reveal a first look at Mari, the Film London Microwave feature starring acclaimed dancer Bobbi Jene Smith.

The project, which recently wrapped its shoot in Sherborne, Dorset and London, is the debut feature from writer-director Georgia Parris and producer Emma Duffy.

It was commissioned through Film London’s Microwave scheme, the low-budget feature initiative which is backed by the BFI and BBC Films, with support from Creative Skillset. Further backing came from Intermission and Boudica Films.

Mari, a drama with dance elements, also stars Phoebe Nicholls (The Elephant Man...

The artistic director behind Sleep No More is looking to further blur the lines between art and life with the launch of Punchdrunk Travel.

Among the countless gifts of the smartphone age, one of the most precious (and mainly illusory) is control--gps-assisted, carefully curated, algorithmically filtered, “friend”-approved control, which means never having to be lost again.

Felix Barrett would like to blow that notion to hell, using the unlikely weapon of theater. “You don’t need to have an opinion anymore; everyone will have it for you,” says Barrett. “So what we try to do is make experiences that are about the individual having to get out there and stake their claim. We’re not going to tell you how to do it, you need to put the work in and uncover the secret yourself.”

Barrett is the founder and artistic director of London-based theater company Punchdrunk, creator of Sleep No More,...