The streaming service and immersive specialists teamed up for a production of its cult show.
It’s 6pm in a disused warehouse, somewhere in London. Hordes of guests clad in 1980s denim, neon and puffer jackets are starting to swarm around outside, searching for a clue to lead them down to the action. So far, so Secret Cinema. The immersive film specialists have, for more than a decade, taken some of the best-loved movies and brought them to life, letting crowds of more than a thousand a night assume characters, curiously seek out scene-shifting moments and walk into the worlds of their favourite films.
But this winter’s show marks Secret Cinema’s first foray beyond the silver screen as it embraces the cult Netflix show Stranger Things created by the Duffer Brothers. The production, which opens tonight and runs until February 2020, is set in 1985, when the Hawkins High classes of 1978-1983 are returning for the mother of all Independence Day reunions led by Mayor Kline on 4 July. Each of the 1,200-strong crowd will be assigned a character from each of the year groups, with a distinct 1980s look, music taste and mission. For the disappearance of Barb isn’t the unresolved mystery in Hawkins – new storylines authorised by Netflix have been woven into Secret Cinema’s production, which beckons the curious in to play along with the actors and immerse themselves in the storyline.
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