Parabolic Theatre, the makers of Crisis? What Crisis and For King and Country, have worked to take immersive online theatre to new levels with The House of Cenci.

Played across four weeks, the team have created digital castle ruins for audiences to explore whilst discovering the events of a harrowing tale. 

After 400 years, the secrets of a family tragedy are awakening. Hidden in the depths of the House of Cenci, the truth waits to be set free. Count Francesco Cenci was a tyrant; his daughter, a victim and a murderer. Based on the true story which inspired centuries of retellings by artists from Percy Bysshe Shelly to Antonin Artaud, originator of the Theatre of Cruelty, The House of Cenci exposes an awful tragedy and the slow procession to disaster. 

The cast for The House of Cenci includes Ed Cartwright, Dare Emmanuel, Ellie Russo, Ewan Bagshaw, Edward Andrews and Sandy Murray. 

The game is split into four acts with live interactive scenes in each. Players can roam around the game at their leisure but live scenes will occur weekly on Zoom, for an hour each time over 4 weeks. Players will be able to unlock opportunities to time travel through the game’s story by solving puzzles, completing tasks and dealing with moral dilemmas. They can then interact with the live scenes to find out more and progress to the next act of the digital tale.

Tickets cost £12.50 and the live content will be played across 19, 26 & 27 February and 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20 & 21 March. 

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