Live (Real-time)

DARKFIELD presents ARCADE: but this isn’t an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines. Every machine offers you the chance to enter the world of the game and choose your own unique journey. As you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war, there are many routes you can take and there are many different outcomes. You can choose a side, win or lose the war, search out a more peaceful route, or join a cult promising a better version of reality. Where will your decisions lead you?

Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 draws from Leo Tolstoy’s Russian masterpiece War and Peace. The show follows Natasha, who develops a relationship with rebel, Anatole, while her betrothed Andrey is off fighting. Andrey's best friend Pierre remains on high alert as the new romance takes shape. The show takes place in Moscow, 1812.

24h Performance is a unique experimental performance form. It is a hybrid mix between group performance, real-life in the city, an exhibition, music production, a demonstration, a festival, a survival experience, a temporary autonomous zone, film shooting, a climax, and poetry.

Solve a hilarious mystery while you feast on a fantastic dinner. Just beware! The culprit is hiding in plain sight somewhere in the room, and you may find yourself as a Prime Suspect before you know it!

The actors are not dressed in costume and are hidden in the audience! This results in a fun, social and interactive evening suitable for all adults.

Each ticket includes our signature award-winning murder mystery dinner theatre show, along with a full plated dinner, waitstaff gratuity, and plenty of surprises during the show.

The production updates hamlet for a modern audience focusing on incorporating educational material surrounding the leaving certificate exam questions. This particular interpretation of the text focuses on the portrayals of mental health in the context of both history as of Shakespearean times and in the modern era. Back in Shakespeare’s day, many mental health problems were simply labeled as ‘Madness’, a key theme in Hamlet.

DARKFIELD presents ARCADE: but this isn’t an ordinary arcade and these are not ordinary arcade machines. Every machine offers you the chance to enter the world of the game and choose your own unique journey. As you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war, there are many routes you can take and there are many different outcomes. You can choose a side, win or lose the war, search out a more peaceful route, or join a cult promising a better version of reality. Where will your decisions lead you?

This production of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' was done in an escape room style to encourage audience members to get a feel for the world the characters are living in.

Then She Fell was a fully immersive, multisensory experience in which only 15 audience members per performance explored a dreamscape where every alcove, corner, and corridor had been transformed into a lushly designed world.

The play is about a man and his wife who have been invited to a dinner party, but over the course of the dinner and the hours that follow after we see a character finding it difficult to accept his place as an aging man in the modern world. The audience are welcomed as guests by the hosts and are welcome at different points to sit at the dinner table and interact with the characters of the production as it progresses. The audience are brought on an immersive and historical experience. 

Port of Entry is an immersive theatre experience set in an apartment building in Chicago's Albany Park. The performance tells the real-life stories of immigrants and refugees from all around the world, living under one roof. The performance takes place in a 3-story, 12,000 square foot apartment building that was built specifically for Port of Entry in a 1929 warehouse. Port of Entry welcomes in 28 audience members per performance and takes them on a journey though the building. It is performed by the Albany Park Theatre Project's youth ensemble.