British theatre company Darkfield has become known for staging creepy productions in shipping containers, which use 360 degree binaural sound and sensory deprivation to play with your mind and freak you out.

Collaborating with Melbourne’s Realscape Productions, Darkfield has staged two of these immersive theatre experiences in Australia – Séance which recreated the supernatural ritual used to communicate with the dead, and Flight, which simulated a mid-air disaster.

COVID-19 restrictions mean that staging intense, intimate productions of this nature in shipping containers isn’t possible at the moment, so Darkfield has introduced a new digital project called Darkfield Radio, which brings one of their signature audio encounters into your home. The first Darkfield Radio show is called Double.

Double is an immersive audio drama from Darkfield Radio, which you experience in your own home. Photograph © Alex Purcell

I didn’t go to Séance – which was performed in complete darkness – after hearing about some people who had been so scared they had fought to get out. As someone who avoids horror films like the plague, it sounded far too claustrophobic and terrifying. But here we are, living through a pandemic which has closed down theatres,...