Event type: Performance

Once the curtain rises, there’s no turning back… 

BLACKOUT is an immersive theatrical experience that pulls you into a world where fear and imagination collide. 

Late at night, a small cast gathers inside an old theatre for what should be a straightforward rehearsal. But the building carries a reputation. Whispered stories, half-remembered warnings and long-held superstitions that most performers dismiss… until they can’t. 

When the theatre doors close, something shifts and what should be fiction starts to feel dangerously real. Expect the unexpected as reality and storytelling begin to blur, plunging you into a shadowed world where nothing is as it seems. 

BLACKOUT puts you inside the experience, where every movement, sound and shadow pulls you deeper into the dark. Brace yourself for unnerving twists, creeping shadows, and moments that will make your heart race. 

Because fear loves an audience. 

Age restriction: 15+ 

Join an incredible night of Short Experimental Performances and One Woman Plays from BlackFest Creatives Collective. Short experimental RnD play from Chelsey Emery, Chase Johston Lynch and Friends presenting their works on Black Excellence and historical figures.

Sarah Abusin presenting based on true story ‘Jailbird’ a musical on incarcerated women in Dubai, and Janoma Omena a Nigerian spoken word artist whose work explores queerness, young adulthood, women’s reproductive health and migrations.

Expect gentle sapphic yearning, philosophical rage and tender contemplations.

Blackeyed Theatre and Arcola Theatre present

The Turn of the Screw

A world premiere by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Based on the seminal ghost story by Henry James

Directed by Nicky Allpress

England. A remote country house. A young governess, hired to care for two seemingly angelic children, begins what appears to be an idyllic new life. Yet there is something about the children that hints at a darker presence.

Desperate to protect them from what she believes to be malevolent spirits, she finds herself descending into a world of ambiguity, leading to one far-reaching question; are the ghosts real… or a projection of something far more terrifying?

A masterwork of psychological suspense and the inspiration for Susan Hill’s The Woman in Black, Henry James’ classic novella The Turn of the Screw is brought to life in this brand-new stage adaptation by Olivier Award-winning playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, combining powerful performances, illusion and stylish theatricality.

“One of the most innovative, audacious companies working in contemporary English theatre” – The Stage on Blackeyed Theatre