All aboard The Train - 12 at a time!

Published: 19 December 2015
Reporter: David Upton

The Train from imitating the dog

An imitating the dog production, co-produced with Marche Teatro, opens at Lancaster University on January 21 ahead of touring the country.

Imitating the dog, an innovative performance theatre company, stages the UK première of The Train, a new immersive theatrical venture which will take its audience on a journey in a moving auditorium.

The new play will première from 21 to 25 January at Lancaster University and then visit The Castle Wellingborough from 19 to 21 February. There are plans to tour the production in late 2016-17.

Having been performed for more than a month at the Marche Teatro in Ancona, The Train is now set to make its English-speaking debut.

The production is a combination of immersive theatre and philosophical fairground ride. An audience of 12 listens through headphones and sits in an electrically-powered moving auditorium which pans and tracks as it follows our heroine’s journey through a multimedia landscape.

It is part detective thriller and part philosophical meditation on loss and human isolation.

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