With a return to Thebes and a final season at Phantom Peak's Canada Water venue, to an immersive version of The Traitors, there's already a host of London-based shows to be excited about in 2025...
Bacchanalia (Sleepwalk Immersive)
Photo: Ivy Corbin
Bacchanalia is an immersive adaptation of The Bacchae by Euripides. Set in a psychedelic 1960s rendition of the city of Thebes, the show is a free-roam performance in which audience members are able to follow a range of characters as Thebes falls from order into madness and debauchery. According to Sleepwalk Immersive, the new staging of the show will expand upon previous performances with new content.
Bacchanalia was previously staged at Crypt in Bethnal Green in November 2023 and enjoyed a sold-out run. The show later returned to the same venue in February and March 2024 after receiving overwhelmingly positive word-of-mouth from audiences. Critical praise for the show was equally strong, with The Stage highlighting it as one of the Top 50 Shows of 2023 and Broadway World describing Bacchanalia as a "fascinating piece of immersive theatre". In our review of the show, we called it "one of the best new immersive shows of the year”.
Past performances saw a cast of performers renowned in the immersive world, as well as exciting newcomers. This upcoming run at Hoxton Hall promises to build on the well-received core of the show’s past runs while further expanding the company’s vision for Bacchanalia.
📍 Hoxton Hall 💰 From £54.00
🕒 11th - 23rd March 2025 🎟️ Book via sleepwalkimmersive.com
Deathcell: Magenta (R Space Productions)
Photo: R Space Productions
R Space Production's Deathcell: Magenta has been a long time coming. The much-anticipated prequel to their 2018 immersive horror production, which won Best Out of Season Attraction at the 2019 ScareCON Awards, the show promises to be a mix of immersive theatre, theatrical cinema, time-pressured puzzle-solving, and impossible decisions. The R Space Productions team has over 30 years of combined experience in the live entertainment industry, and its founder, Steph Ricketts, has played an important part in bringing a lot of Thorpe Park's most well-known scare attractions to life.
Expect big scares and tough decisions when Deathcell: Magenta opens at an undisclosed location in Hackney Wick this February.
📍 Hackney Wick 💰 From £30.00
🕒 21st February 2024 - 1st March 2025 🎟️ Book via deathcell.co.uk
Phantom Peak: The Final Season
Photo: Alistair Veryard
With 11 seasons of Phantom Peak having run since first opening in August 2022, it's been confirmed that the next season of Phantom Peak - currently titled 'The Final Season' - will be the last at their Canada Water venue. Over the last 24 months, Phantom Peak has gone from strength to strength, with consistently high-quality trails, an ever-expanding list of technology on offer, and an ongoing narrative that's rich and rewarding for long-time visitors while still engaging for first-timers.
Details of exactly where the show is relocating to are still under wraps, but we know that this venue change will usher in a new era for the show. Recent seasons of Phantom Peak have had increasing mentions of 'The Great Undoing' - an event that looks set to rock the foundations of the platypus-loving town to its Diamant-filled core.
📍 Canada Water 💰 From £42.00
🕒 From 14th February 2025 🎟️ Book via phantompeak.com
Elvis Evolution
Photo: Elvis Presley Enterprises LLC
Layered Reality, the producers of Elvis Evolution, have become a powerhouse of immersive experience over the last few years. Their best-known show, Jeff Wayne's The War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience, holds the title of London's longest-running immersive show, and The Gunpowder Plot - which tells the story of Guy Fawkes's attempt to blow up parliament - has been running next to the Tower of London since 2022.
In 2025, their new production will debut at Immerse LDN near ExCel London. While the real-life Elvis never performed on stage in the UK, the show will feature a concert experience where a life-sized digital Elvis will perform some of his biggest hits. It'll be preceded by a journey through his life - from Graceland to New York and Los Angeles before heading to Las Vegas - where he took up a seven-year residency between 1969 and 1976.
Elvis will be brought back through AI and holographic projection, as well as augmented reality, live theatre, and multi-sensory effects. To aid the creation of the show, the company has been given access to thousands of Elvis’s personal photos and hours of his home video archive to create these new AI Elvis performances.
📍 ExCel London 💰 From £75.00
🕒 From 10th May 2025 🎟️ Book via elvisevolution.com
The Traitors: Live Experience
Photo: Hugo Glendinning
The Traitors: Live Experience, which is set to open in the West End this Spring, is a first-of-its-kind adaptation of the hit BBC series. Produced by Immersive Everywhere, the experience will invite guests to step into the world of the TV series and sit at the Round Table for a high-stakes game of deception, strategy, and teamwork.
It'll feature recognisable gameplay elements such as a blindfolded Traitors selection, several missions that will test both physical and mental endurance, and ample opportunities for the Traitors to strategise whether to murder or recruit from the rest of the group.
Leading the creative vision for the project is Neil Connolly, Creative Director at Immersive Everywhere, whose track record includes The Crystal Maze Live Experience, The Tomb Raider Live Experience, and other ground-breaking immersive experiences. Immersive Everywhere has previously mounted immersive adaptations of Peaky Blinders and Doctor Who.
📍 West End 💰 From £29.50
🕒 Spring 2025 🎟️ Sign up for pre-sale via thetraitorslive.co.uk
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I'm not gonna lie, I've no idea how a show like traitors can be boiled down to a 2 hour experience, it just doesn't make sense in my head.