A Midnight Visit

A Midnight Visit is Broad Encounters’ first large-scale work. Set over 2500sqm and involving over 250 creators, the immersive theatre production has captivated over 58,000 people across Australia to date, received multiple five-star reviews, and won Best New Event of 2018 for Australia and NZ (Concrete Playground) and Best Performance Adaption from The International Edgar Allan Poe Society based in Baltimore. Inspired by the works, world and legacy of Edgar Allan Poe, the multi-sensory show upends boundaries and expectations, combining theatre, art, dance, film, soundscape and cabaret.

Where traditional performance locks audiences into the role of spectators, A Midnight Visit liberates them. Guests are made co-creators of their own experience, free to explore over thirty mood-specific rooms, interact with exquisitely detailed sets, solve cryptic puzzles and negotiate encounters with strange characters. Designed to be cerebral, thrilling and ambitious, no two journeys are the same.

The premiere season was co-produced with Groundswell Productions in an abandoned warehouse in Sydney, 2018. The Perth season was presented in collaboration with Fringe World Festival at an old Girls School in 2019. A third season ran for 16 weeks the same year in Melbourne. A Midnight Visit played for a record-breaking 27 weeks in Brisbane, 27 July 2021 - 30 January 2022.