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.
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Praise for A Midnight Visit:
“A sure hit … Inside, a maze of ghoulish delights awaits. Every experience will be different”
– The Age
“Mind-blowing… An amazing maze with surprises both devilish and delightful around every corner”
– West Australian
“An exciting and strange piece of immersive theatre”
– Sydney Morning Herald
“Australia’s answer to Sleep No More”
– ABC Arts
“This piece of immersive theatre is unlike almost anything else at the moment”
– XPress Magazine
“A delight to all the senses”
– Theatre People
"Re-defining the immersive experience by creating a truly all encompassing world"
– Australian Arts Review
“Like Alice down the rabbit hole, you drift into an impeccably constructed dreamscape/adventure land…the level of detail is second to none”
– Fringe Feed
“Directed with panache by Danielle Harvey, it engages all five senses (scents are cannily deployed in different playing spaces), allows audiences space to explore and make the night their own… A remarkable achievement”
– Time Out Sydney
“This is what theatre should be doing all the time, challenging, exploring, developing and expanding the form of theatre”
– On the Town
