The emotional heft and sheer scale of this immersive show inspired by the Trojan War blows you away. The first major venture in the capital for eight years from leaders in the field Punchdrunk, it sees them create epic visual images – a princess bride murdered as an offering atop a giant tank trap, a vast concrete slab that becomes a catwalk for lust and violence - and minutely detailed environments in their new base in Woolwich’s historic military buildings.
Recent events inevitably add to its savage poignancy. The two huge spaces of the Arsenal and the adjoining artillery museum unfold like an other-worldly maze amid the run-down shops and jarring new apartment towers of Woolwich. I was comprehensively won over even though the experience requires a degree of sheeplike surrender, common to immersive theatre.
