Immersive theatre has been very popular for the past decade now, and it shows no signs of slowing down this year with several new immsersive theatre experiences in London taking place. The "Doctor Who Time Fracture" immersive experience was on the list in 2019 when it was booked by the bloke as we both enjoy the BBC series, and I grew up watching re-runs of the older episodes. Anyway, we re-booked the experience four times before we were able to go due to lockdowns and flooding throughout 2020. The location of the expeirence is near Bond Street station, and we were ushered into the waiting area, which was designed to look like a secret army operation called U.N.I.T. We were led into a central area with a lot of other "volunteers", and there was another group to arrive and a much smaller group already inside and being briefed on the "experience" task. Basically, we had to locate an item to help us repair the time fracture, and we meet a lot of different characters along the way. Meanwhile, some strange things are happening to London, so time is important.
Ours was one of the larger groups there. It was a bit difficult to hear with such large groups and all of the other sounds and chatter from other groups shouting over each other. Similar to the newer episodes of "Doctor Who", it was action-packed and a little bit chaotic. We could choose the path we wanted to go into, and I found my way to the Elizabethan courts. Unfortunately, this took a long time of tasks messing around with the actors and actresses here, and we did not get to explore any other areas and then were told to rush through some doors. I was feeling a bit bored by the different tasks but it would have been rude to walk away. So, we missed some of the story right off the bat. Then, we found ourselves into a different room where there was a bar and a pig-faced character, robot, and others. There was an altercation, but we really lost track of what was going on by then as we were stuck in the Elizabethan court for so long. We were all then led into a spaceship where there was a bar and some live music, and then there were the stone angels and the final room to the time lord planet. We saw a Dalek in the main room at the start, but we did not see them nor any Cybermen, but visitors are encouraged to return time and time again because there are many places to explore. We only saw five areas.
Afterwards, we had a couple of cocktails. The main room was transformed into a party room, but we were the only guests to stay behind to have a cocktail, which was really cool with dry ice stirrers.
We could also look around one of the other rooms where we could see some props and information about the companions.
And of course, there was a TARDIS and one of my favourite companions, K-9 the robot dog.
Overall, it was a little bit chaotics for us, but we missed the first part of the story and were then rushed through and did not know what was going on since we missed all of that information being stuck in one place for so long. So, neither of us really enjoyed it much, which was a pity because I think it could have been a lot more. Overall, I would give this a two out of five stars as I did not feel I really got to enjoy it and was unable to get into the story, and it was a bit expensive considering. The price of a standard theatre ticket is roughly the same cost, but I felt I got less out of this experience than I would a traditional performance.
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