Drapers’ Hall, Coventry
Punchdrunk Enrichment’s site-specific project for children aged six to 11 turns a historic building into a secretive library
On the way to The Lost Lending Library, a new immersive family theatre show, I describe Punchdrunk’s The Drowned Man to my eight-year-old, Hilda, in a bid to explain the “immersive” bit. One floor of a huge building was covered with sand, I say, and at one point I had to wash down a stranger with an old rag. “Ew!” she grimaces.
This show by Punchdrunk Enrichment, the company’s charitable offshoot that specialises in educational and community work, is altogether more serene. A dozen or so kids gather in an oval room at Coventry’s recently refurbished Drapers’ Hall, across the road from the fantastic Herbert Art Gallery, which has lent some props to inspire our ideas.
At Drapers’ Hall, Coventry, until 6 November
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