Who are Darkfield?

DARKFIELD are masters of the unseen. Founded by Glen Neath, David Rosenberg and Andrea Salazar, the London‑based company have spent over a decade crafting performances in pitch‑black spaces where sound, touch and suggestion pull the strings. Their trademark? Custom‑built containers, sealed against every trace of light and fitted with state‑of‑the‑art 360° binaural audio. In the dark, is that a whisper in your ear or someone’s breath on your neck? DARKFIELD isn’t theatre you watch – it’s theatre that happens to you.

Don’t just take our word for it

From their debut Ring in 2012 to Fiction, SÉANCE, FLIGHT and COMA, DARKFIELD have earned an international reputation for their smart and thrilling shows. They’re regulars at Edinburgh Fringe, where The Scotsman called their work “absolutely unsettling” and have shown at Venice, Tribeca, SXSW and the BFI London Film Festival. Plus in 2021, they won Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab Breakthrough Award for their innovation in narrative technology. Now they bring a trilogy of their trademark shows to Manchester.

FLIGHT at Aviva Studios

You board a plane. The safety briefing ends. The lights go out. In FLIGHT, the cabin is a perfect replica – but you’re about to experience two realities at once, inspired by the Many‑Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. Through masterfully mixed sound and physical cues, you’re carried between versions of the same journey – neither of which you can entirely trust. Pay attention to the safety demo and get ready to dial up the tension to one hundred.

ARCADE at Lowry

A row of glowing arcade machines. Your own personal console. One button. Every press – or hesitation – reshapes your path through a dystopian, war‑torn world. Do you fight? Join a cult? Seek peace? This 30-minute experience uses the nostalgic aesthetic of 1980’s video games to explore the evolving relationship between players and avatars.

SÉANCE at HOME Manchester

A table shared with strangers. In SÉANCE, you join an attempt to contact the dead. Every knock, murmur and breath feeling close enough to touch. Taking on the aesthetic of a Victorian séance room, it’s a masterclass in suggestion and the power of the mind to conjure its own ghosts. Premiered at Edinburgh Fringe in 2017, it remains one of DARKFIELD’s most intimate and spine‑tingling works.

From 10-21 September 2025, DARKFIELD’s trilogy takes over Greater Manchester – FLIGHT at Aviva Studios, ARCADE at Lowry, and SÉANCE at HOME. Each show runs multiple times a day, offering the rare chance to experience the full range of DARKFIELD’s work – from multiverse thriller to retro nightmare to a supernatural conjuring.

All three DARKFIELD experiences run from 10 to 21 September 2025. Click the following links to be redirected to each individual performance: FLIGHT at Aviva Studios, SÉANCE at HOME and ARCADE at Lowry.