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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Nick Curtis

I Do at Malmaison hotel: Immersive wedding play is acutely embarrassing to experience

Carla Langley as Georgina (bride) with Tessie Orange-Turner (kneeling) as Abigail and Alice Brittain as Lizzie - (Greta Zabulyte)

Though technically impressive, Dante or Die’s immersive theatre show exploring the fraught moments before a wedding from different perspectives is narratively trite and acutely embarrassing to experience.

In groups of around 12, the audience is shepherded through several rooms of the Malmaison hotel in Smithfield, clustering like awkward ghosts around the bride, the groom and sundry flustered relatives and guests. Rather than show how different viewpoints skew a story, a la Rashomon, threads of individual lives entwine here to form a humdrum whole.

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